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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... group into the political community or into that larger community of nations with which we maintain friendly relations . We try to distinguish a people , capable of redemption , from its leadership , lost to evil . Our enemies regularly ...
... groups around the world. By bringing liberalism into contact with Schmitt, I mean not to un- dermine liberal practices, but rather to expand our horizon of under- standing. Schmitt can be read as celebrating a violent politics, which he ...
... groups.8 Rather, the bound- aries of toleration are already present before any differentiation is even recognized. The result, however, is that we never get beyond the starting point. Liberal theory becomes a closed circle of discourse ...
... groups. Both seek to protect cultural goods from the potential homog- enizing effects of liberal egalitarianism ... group recognition comes with a parallel demand for individual respect. That is, the cost of political recognition for a ...
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