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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... sacrifice his or her life. 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 ...
... sacrifice the self for the maintenance of the political community. To comprehend this experience, we need more than the philosopher's conception of reason, and more than the economist's conception of interest. Indeed, we will need more ...
... sacrifice that I believe to be constitutive of an American culture of popular sovereignty. My own beliefs in this regard, however, are as irrelevant to the analysis as my own religious beliefs are to understanding the nature of ...
... sacrifice, and it is all too often violent. I don't, however, celebrate these aspects of our experience. Nevertheless, I do insist that we confront the character of our political faith. Our faith in popular sovereignty does not make us ...
... sacrifice. Chapters 5 and 6 develop this richer account of ourselves and of our politics based on the idea of the ... sacrifice. We know who we are when we know the concerns for which we are willing to sacrifice. These are all ideas ...
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9780691136981_9CONpdf | 291 |
9780691136981_10INDpdf | 314 |