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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... never been our only strategy for dealing with difference. Across a broad domain, we have tolerated difference. Toleration for some religious differences is deeply embedded in American history. Free speech, too, rests on a principle of ...
... never appear as permanently alien; they appear instead as the object for our efforts at conversion. Of course, we have had—and still have—our own hatreds. Nevertheless, that history of hatred tends to be understood within a narrative of ...
... never get beyond the categories of our own imaginations, whether we are speaking of who we are or what we should do. Second, the distinction is consistently transgressed in both. 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal ...
... never understand the character of the American rule of law without first understanding the way in which it is embedded in a conception of popular sovereignty. More importantly, we will not understand the way in which the nation-state ...
... never a matter of abstract reason or of the particularity of interest. Neither can account for our sense of the nation as a unique historical actor, nor of ourselves as participants in this political project that has both a privileged ...
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