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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... institutions founded on our belief in the equality and liberty of every person. This dogged commitment to a universal community is a product of both our Christian and Enlightenment traditions. We experience this commitment ...
... institutions of governance. The boundaries of the state often appear as a problem to be overcome. To put liberalism in its proper place is to take up the question of the nature of the unity of the political community—in particular, of ...
... institutional structure and procedural coherence to a common political life. Modern liberal theorists, such as Rawls, Habermas, and Acker- man, often support their claims to normative objectivity by modeling an ideal discourse. Each ...
... institutions. The ambition of this part is not to offer an answer to the problem of cultural difference, but to illuminate from within the character of our own cultural difference. Even a liberal political order is still a political ...
... institutions both private and public; this liberalism provides the context within which both liberal theory and liberal partisanship operate.1 There are reciprocal relations among all three levels. Liberal theory, for example, is an ...
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