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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... faith and sacrifice that I believe to be constitutive of an American culture of popular sovereignty. My own beliefs in this regard, however, are as irrelevant to the analysis as my own religious beliefs are to understanding the nature ...
... 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 sover- eign is to some extent a ...
... faith and a liberalism of speech . 29 I have discussed this methodology in detail in P. Kahn , The Cultural Study of Law : Reconstructing the Legal Scholarship 41-43 ( 1999 ) . These point in quite different directions : one privileges ...
... faith, and in ethnic communities. None of these are consistent with the ideal of the liberal subject, but each may be compatible with a liberal rule of law. We are simultaneously living in an age marked by the free flow of information ...
... faith. A similar ambiguity of a turning away from, and a turning toward, the state provides competing elements of our faith in liberalism. In the New World, this double-inheritance from Christianity takes on a new form. Approached ...
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