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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... experience that are beyond the reach of liberalism. Liberal theorists have been so concerned with the problem of internal coercion—that is, the government's exercise of force against citizens—that they have failed to focus on the ways ...
... experience than ordinary political prac- tices. I think our politics continues to demand sacrifice, and it is all too often violent. I don't, however, celebrate these aspects of our expe- rience. Nevertheless, I do insist that we ...
... experience of the politi- cal. Liberalism offers a theory of political order, but liberalism cannot understand the conditions of the political upon which it depends. In our political life, we affirm liberal values, but liberalism fails ...
... experience of political meaning. The consequence of this disequlibrium is not just the unresolvable debate between communi- tarians and liberals, but a similar sort of unsettling dialectic among all of liberalism's fundamental concepts ...
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