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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... distinction of the private from the pub- lic. These critical elements of the liberal project are shown to fail: the discourse of reason becomes a discourse of the body; the political al- ways seems to bridge the private and the public ...
... distinction between self and other. That very fluidity may come to define a Western subject in which we invest a politics of ultimate meaning: We are a people of the Internet. That too may be a powerful political idea, separating ...
... distinction, and the separation of reason from interest. Because liberalism and its critics are bound to each other as constitutive aspects of a single world, the problems of liberalism cannot be met simply by turning to its com ...
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