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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... ideas alone. Rather, it is experienced in and through the body. Meaning is not of the body, but it is certainly in the body. The body is “read” as the expression of an idea. The primary terms of this reading of ourselves involve love ...
... idea of political sovereignty, upon which the modern nation-state rested. Whether one believes this development to be good or bad, its presence is undeniable. It is part of the general movement of globalization, its legal face. These ...
... idea of religious liberty that emerges out of the sectarian wars of the Reformation. Liberalism carries forward the deeper idea that ultimate truth is to be found in a turning away from politics. That turning away of the soul— toward ...
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