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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... political culture. Part II investigates what the debate framed by these oppositions leaves out or fails to see. Most of all, liberalism fails to see the way in which citizens commit- ted to American political culture occupy a meaningful ...
... political community as given and set out to construct the rules that should operate within that commu- nity. Rather than look to the origins of the particular community, they are more likely to look to an original position that is a ...
... political arrangement—a kind of unfortunate, historical accident. I will argue that recognition of the possibility of sacrifice is at the base of our experience of the political and an adequate theory of our political beliefs must offer ...
... political practices. They too are founded on faith. In all of these cases, we are claimed in ways that cannot be contained by the reasonable. Politics, even the politics of a liberal state, remains a deeply erotic phenomenon. The state ...
... political life as are liberal values. Failure to explore these other political values will leave us with a distorted image of the character of our commitment to the political. I hope to plot the shape of the world of meaning that I find ...
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