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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... contemporary political life, and particularly the tension between the United States and its European allies, arise from the fact that Americans generally remain embedded in a modern conception of the citizen and the nation-state in an ...
... Contemporary liberal thought—particularly in the form of the human rights. 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law raises particular problems for international law. See P. Kahn, “American Hegemony and International ...
Paul W. Kahn. Contemporary liberal thought—particularly in the form of the human rights movement—has challenged both of these ontological claims: law is to be freed from sovereignty. But we will never understand the character of the ...
... contemporary liberal theory, but it is the dominant form. That, I hope to show, is because it resonates with broadly accepted beliefs about the role of reason in the life of the individual and the state. Liberalism is a political view ...
... Contemporary liberal theorists might respond that their position is political,. later, he disavows this claim, saying now that his effort is only to provide “an account of reasonable principles of justice” (J. Rawls, Political Liberalism ...
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