Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 páginas In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We can understand this modern condition only by recognizing that any political community, even a liberal one, is bound together by faith, love, and identity. |
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... fail to respond critically, and about cultural imperialism when we do respond. The problem is both theoretical and practical: theoretical, when we struggle to find a form of reasoning that can occupy a position between a discredited ...
... fail to account for central aspects of our experience of ourselves and of our relationship to the political community. The assumptions within which liberalism operates generate the familiar oppositions that have dominated modern ...
... fails to see. Most of all, liberalism fails to see the way in which citizens committed to American political culture occupy a meaningful world. It fails to see what I will describe as the erotic foundations of modern political life. We ...
... failed to focus on the ways in which our politics remains deeply enmeshed in war and the threat of war.25 Citizens understand themselves not just in terms of a legal order of rights, but also as potential instruments of state violence.
... fail: the discourse of reason becomes a discourse of the body; the political always seems to bridge the private and ... fails as a theory of politics. Part II offers a positive account of self and politics, within which liberalism must ...
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