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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... , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996). 2 See R. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post-Cold War (2000). 3 See M. Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry 2 □ INTRODUCTION.
... human rights—“It is the law,” we say—but beneath the legal rhetoric we find disagreement about the nature of the individual and his or her relationship to the community. Disagreement, we fear, may go all the way down.3 Western states ...
... Human Resources v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) (refusing to exempt religious use of peyote from state laws of general applicability). For an earlier example of the same tension, but with movement in the opposite direction, compare ...
... human-rights law. Alternatively, we can begin from the perception of difference among groups. The intuition of difference is no less fundamental than that of commonality. This is the approach of those who perceive in human rights ...
... human rights. 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law raises particular problems for international law. See P. Kahn, “American Hegemony and International 16 But see C. Larmore, The Morals of Modernity, chap. PUTTING ...
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