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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... sovereignty a fundamental norm. 8 See, e.g., Bangkok Declaration, adopted at the World Human Rights Conference Regional Preparatory Meeting (1993); M. Mutua, “Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights,” 42 Harv. Int'l ...
... both. 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal-Communitarian Debate,” in Liberalism and the Moral Life 159 (N. Rosenblum, ed., 1989). 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law 10 □ INTRODUCTION.
... sovereignty, on the other hand, is always bound to a particular community temporally and geographically. Claims of sovereignty reflect a community's understanding of itself as embodying a distinct set of meanings that are substantive ...
... sovereignty. More importantly, we will not understand the way in which the nation-state presents itself to the ... sovereignty—in the American case, popular sovereignty—is to speak of a relationship of meaning between the citizen and the ...
... sovereignty arises at all, it tends to be equated with majority rule. That conception, however, is hardly adequate to the transhistorical idea of a people creating and maintaining itself. Voting is only a particular act, while ...
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