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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... beliefs, but they are no more real than that which it does see. At best, we are talking about different kinds of necessity, not an ontologi- cal priority in these different perspectives. We live our lives within symbolic domains; we ...
... Beliefs about the character of the subject and about policies reciprocally affect each other. The pursuit of liberal norms as a ... belief that commu- nity relationships are constitutive of individual identity may lead to the advocacy of ...
... beliefs must offer an explanation of sacrifice. To speak of sovereignty—in the American case, popular sover- eignty—is to speak of a relationship of meaning between the citizen and the community considered as a unified, historical ...
... belief that it is the sovereign who speaks. Liberal theorists generally do just that: they focus on the con- tent of the speech, that is, on what it is the sovereign said or should say. They do not reflect on the significance of the belief ...
... beliefs about the role of reason in the life of the individual and the state. Liberalism is a political view that rests on a moral epistemology. It combines a theory of reason and a conception of interest to construct a political world ...
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