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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... kind of unfortunate, historical accident. I will argue that recognition of the possibility of sacrifice is at the base of our experience of the political and an adequate theory of our political beliefs must offer an explanation of ...
... kind of “reflec- 16 But see C. Larmore, The Morals of Modernity, chap. 7 (1996) (arguing that politi- cal liberalism must not take a position on the capacity for individual self-definition). In general, however, even those varieties of ...
... kind of second-order faculty, affirming a relation- ship either to an object or to others that has its source and justification in these faculties of reason and interest. On this view, the will attaches to the products of reason or the ...
... kind of creed . Every creed derives its symbolic energy not from its specific content , but from the identification of the individual with the underlying social reality . As Americans , we are liberal . It is not because we are liberal ...
... kind of human rights triumphalism, marked by the emergence of new transnational institutions that are not compatible with the idea of po- litical sovereignty, upon which the modern nation-state rested. Whether one believes this ...
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