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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... kind of tautological affirmation of one's own values. Moral relativism, however, offers no more support for tolerance than for intolerance. From the fact of difference, nothing follows about whether to accept it or reject it. There may ...
... kind of open-ended. 10 This political antinomy had an epistemic reflection in the practice of ethnography, which formally suggested political indifference across boundaries, but posed a danger of offering ideological support for colonial ...
Paul W. Kahn. ditions. We experience this commitment simultaneously as a kind of open-ended love and as a faith in the capacity of each individual to enter a rational debate that will result in mutual agreement. No one, we believe, is ...
... kind of stable synthesis of these two sources. That stability, I will argue in the conclusion, is under considerable stress today as the erotic conception of the citizen's body is displaced by a more plastic and disembodied conception ...
... kind of pre- political abstraction. The same failure to attend to the unity of the particular historical community leads many liberals—not just theoreticians—uncritically to accept the global reach of liberal norms, whether of legal ...
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