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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 82
... character of the norms that emerge is, therefore, limited only by the particularity of the conditions within which the discourse proceeds. The more generally applicable those conditions, the more universal the norms. Again, this is not ...
... character of the Judeo-Christian God. We will have to ex- amine as well the erotic character of the political. To understand what is at stake for us in the current controversy over multiculturalism, we must confront some very unliberal ...
... character of our commitment to the political. I hope to plot the shape of the world of meaning that I find all around me.24 To do so, I draw on a wide variety of sources—myth, literature, history, law, and political theory. Some may ...
... character of our political faith. Our faith in popular sovereignty does not make us indif- ferent to the liberal content of the rule of law. Law and popular sover- eignty exist in a reciprocal relationship. Our faith in the popular ...
... character of that which ap- pears to be a priori truth for us : the autonomous character of the indi- vidual , the privileged place of reason , and a government that respects the distinction between the private and the public . These ...
Contenido
1 | |
28 | |
9780691136981_4CH2pdf | 66 |
9780691136981_5CH3pdf | 113 |
9780691136981_6CH4pdf | 143 |
9780691136981_7CH5pdf | 183 |
9780691136981_8CH6pdf | 228 |
9780691136981_9CONpdf | 291 |
9780691136981_10INDpdf | 314 |