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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 57
... 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-Communitarian Debate,” in Liberalism and the Moral Life 159 (N. Rosenblum, ed ...
... speak of advocacy and ontology with respect to the political subject, I will speak of the rule of law and political sovereignty. The rule of law is the normative ideal of a liberal politics: it guarantees individual rights against the ...
... speak of a relationship of meaning between the citizen and the community considered as a unified, historical subject ... speaking and Law—Speaking Law to Power: Popular Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the New International Order,” 1 Chi ...
... speaking. If the idea of popular 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 ...
... speak of the social contract, the content of the will comes from reason. When we speak of market contracts, that content comes from interest. The liberal will is a kind of second-order faculty, affirming a relationship either to an ...
Contenido
1 | |
28 | |
9780691136981_4CH2pdf | 66 |
9780691136981_5CH3pdf | 113 |
9780691136981_6CH4pdf | 143 |
9780691136981_7CH5pdf | 183 |
9780691136981_8CH6pdf | 228 |
9780691136981_9CONpdf | 291 |
9780691136981_10INDpdf | 314 |