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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... appear to us regularly to violate our deepest moral commitments, we could lose faith in the popular sovereign. Something like this was true for those radical abolitionists who declared the Constitution to be a “covenant with death and ...
... appears as a project—increasingly one of global dimensions. Multiculturalism, as both a descriptive and normative concept within a broadly liberal culture, occupies this space made possible by a conception and a tech- nology of the self ...
... appear as minor themes elsewhere, and vice versa. Comparative work 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 ...
... appears as noth- ing less than a form of prejudice. Worse, it is an intolerant privileg- ing of the self, which is the source of all prejudice. Thus, “the veil of ignorance prevents the parties from invoking inappropriate reasons, given ...
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