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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... meaning between the citizen and the community considered as a unified, historical subject. Our liberalism operates within this politics of meaning, but liberal theory lacks the conceptual tools by which to grasp this context. It lacks ...
... meaning. Love locates the infinite in the particular; love expresses a faith in a world that embodies a transcendent meaning. This is why Plato can describe love as daimon, mediating between the gods and the merely mortal.21 The world ...
... meaning—that is, meaning for us. Here, I explicitly develop an alternative theory of the will to replace the liberal conception of will as contract. This is the pivotal point of the book. Prior to this, my technique is essentially ...
... meaning will lead to the rise of other forms of ultimate meaning, to understand which we again need to consider the structure of eros and the will. Political forms may be more contingent than the erotic foundation upon which they build ...
... meaning. The consequence of this disequlibrium is not just the unresolvable debate between communitarians and liberals, but a similar sort of unsettling dialectic among all of liberalism's fundamental concepts: the private/public ...
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