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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... Christian states. The contemporary truths of the West are procedural and economic: the rule of. 1 Compare, e.g., K. Karst, “The Bonds of American Nationhood,” 21 Cardozo L. Rev. 1141 (2000), with S. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations ...
... , Rationality, and Sentimentality,” inOn Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 111 (S. Shute and S. Hurley, eds., 1995). 11 For a skeptical view of statements of Christian ends, PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE 5 □
... Christian and Enlightenment tra- 10 This political antinomy had an epistemic reflection in the practice of ethnography , which formally suggested political indifference across boundaries , but posed a danger of offering ideological ...
... Christian ends, see A. Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost (1999); see also, E. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays 411, 429 (2000). 12 A good example is Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, which begins by look- ing at ...
... Christian inheritance of our political tradition. This is Christianity not as a source of religious doctrine but as a form of understanding of self and community. Much of this study is an effort to explore the way in which our political ...
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