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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... speech, too, rests on a principle of liberal tolerance for difference. Intolerance appears at the margins of a field of tolerance. Those margins have moved substantially over the course of our history. Within our own community, we reach ...
... speech. For Americans, the polity has its origin in the speech of the popular sovereign. That the sovereign speaks a language of the liberal rule of law does not mean that we can ignore the belief that it is the sovereign who speaks ...
... to deploy Schmitt within liberalism's preferred model of politics as speech. See, e.g., C. Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (2000). My appropriation of Schmitt is more radical. Politics, I argue in chap. PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE □ 19.
... speech, but the action that succeeds speech. 26 See William Lloyd Garrison, Resolution adopted by the Antislavery Society, Jan. 27, 1843. 27 See Kahn, “American Hegemony.” 28 See R. Dworkin, Law's 20 □ INTRODUCTION.
... speech of the popular sovereign. Without that, what purports to be law is only “action under the color of law”; it is unconstitutional. More than theory is at stake here, for if we allow liberalism to block our view of this political ...
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