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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... Interest 145 5. The Erotic Body 183 6. The Autonomy of the Political in the Modern Nation-State 228 Conclusion: The Future of the Nation-State 291 Index 315 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have been thinking about the arguments in this.
... future will be led by an Islamic cleric. Other cultures do not necessarily share this proselytizing attitude toward the alien other. They do not pursue a universal mission of either love or reason. Difference, for them, may not be ...
... future; it is neither the timelessness of reason, nor the present of interest. We are most familiar with this conception of the will in its Christian form: the will is the faculty that makes possible the experience of grace. This is the ...
... future. The experience of the will is of the idea become flesh, or of the body as the expression of an idea. For the will, the body is a point of revelation of a meaning that simultaneously defines the self and is greater than the self ...
... future volumes.32 □ □ □ □ CULTURAL STUDY AND LIBERALISM Liberalism has. 32 See P. Kahn, “Comparative Constitutionalism in a New Key,” 101 U. Mich. L. Rev. 2677 (2003). 1 See R. Unger, Knowledge and Politics 6 (1975). (“Liberalism ...
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