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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... remains the most important work in political theory of the last fifty years. Many of my examples of liberal attitudes will, therefore, be drawn from Rawls, supplemented by other prominent liberal theorists, including Habermas and ...
... remains a deeply erotic phenomenon. The state makes a claim upon us that we perceive as one of ultimate meaning. Quite literally, we can be conscripted by the state: it can demand of us that we sacrifice the self for the maintenance of ...
... remains deeply enmeshed in war and the threat of war.25 Citizens understand themselves not just in terms of a legal order of rights, but also as potential instruments of state violence. 23 See J. Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political ...
... remains wholly indeterminate, however, is whether this postmodern displacement of a politics of ultimate meaning will lead to the rise of other forms of ultimate meaning, to understand which we again need to consider the structure of ...
... remains for future volumes.32 □ □ □ □ CULTURAL STUDY AND LIBERALISM Liberalism has. 32 See P. Kahn, “Comparative Constitutionalism in a New Key,” 101 U. Mich. L. Rev. 2677 (2003). 1 See R. Unger, Knowledge and Politics 6 (1975) ...
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