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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... turn, declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997). 7 See, e.g., Yoder, 406 U.S. at 244 (Douglas, J., dissenting) (arguing that Amish chil- dren have cognizable interests that may depart ...
... turn to self-exploration.13 CULTURAL STUDY AND LIBERALISM Cultural difference is such a prominent problem today because it presses against some of the most basic assumptions of our own broadly liberal culture. My ambition is to expose ...
... turn from the rules of governance to the character of political meaning. Charles Taylor usefully labels this dis- tinction as advocacy versus ontology.14 Taylor notes that to criticize liberalism's understanding of the nature of the ...
... turn again to the problems of cultural pluralism in the conclusion. Here, I argue two points. First, we are presently seeing a challenge to that political self-understanding, which put sovereignty before law. Second, it is too early to ...
... turn to war in re- sponse. The contemporary Western state—particularly the United States—may be simultaneously undergoing an internal depoliticiza- tion and an external repoliticization. This is not a question of the scope of the ...
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