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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... examples of liberal attitudes will, therefore, be drawn from Rawls, supplemented by other promi- nent liberal theorists, including Habermas and Ackerman. All three stand squarely in the Enlightenment tradition, with its faith in ...
... example, been marked by new investments of ultimate meanings in a child-centered ideal of the family, in fundamentalist faith, and in ethnic communities. None of these are consistent with the ideal of the liberal subject, but each may ...
... example, is an effort to understand an ongoing set of practices within a liberal society, just as partisan political battles can be efforts to realize ideals clarified by, or even derived from, liberal theory. Start- ing at any one ...
... example, J. Tully, Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity (1995). 9 See Rawls, The Law of Peoples, 54–57; see also S. Fish, “Mission Impossible: Settling the Just Bounds Between Church and State,” 97 Colum. L ...
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