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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... perspective from the adults to the children in these groups, or from the group's relationship to the dominant culture to its relationship to dissident minorities within its own geographic reach, is likely to produce just the opposite ...
... perspective, Western universalism may appear as yet another form of cultural imperialism. For the West, the story of colonialism was one of Christian proselytizing and the progress of civilization; it was simultaneously a project of ...
... perspective). In his terms, this is a work in political ontology. Yet the distinction is not without problems and ... perspectives. We live our lives within symbolic domains; we never get beyond the categories of our own imaginations ...
... perspective of reason, which means temporarily to bracket one's own immediate interests as a source of direction for the will, there will be only competition and chaos. To bracket interest and pursue the common perspective of reason is ...
... perspective of the legal scholar, much of political theory has about it a disturbing abstractness. The close connection between liberalism and liberal theory seems to unleash the theoretician to imagine ever more refined conceptions of ...
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