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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... LIBERALISM Cultural difference is such a prominent problem today because it presses against some of the most basic assumptions of our own broadly liberal culture. My ambition is to expose these assumptions and show how they fail to ...
... liberalism in its proper place. To put liberalism in its proper place, I need to emphasize, is not to put liberalism down or to dismiss its norms. I take for granted that most of my readers share—as I do—a commitment to basic liberal ...
... liberals—not just theore- ticians—uncritically to accept the global reach of liberal norms, whether of legal rights or market transactions. All individuals, not just citizens, should live under conditions of equality and autonomy; all ...
... liberal norms as a matter of advocacy may really have a tendency to build citizen character in the way liberals ... liberal project, but that the range of our beliefs and commitments is broader than the liberal project perceives. Third ...
... Liberal thought, as well as liberal politics, believes claims for sacrifice are exterior to the purposes and functions of a legitimate political arrangement—a kind of unfortunate, historical accident. I will argue that recognition of ...
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