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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 72
... matter not of contract but of love. That which we will do for love cannot always find its measure in justice. I do not mean to substitute a politics of sacrifice and love for one of reason and contract; this is not a work in advocacy ...
... matter of abstract reason or of the particularity of interest. Neither can account for our sense of the nation as a unique historical actor, nor of ourselves as participants in this political project that has both a privileged past and ...
... matter of abstract 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 ...
Alcanzaste el límite de visualización de este libro.
Alcanzaste el límite de visualización de este libro.
Contenido
1 | |
28 | |
9780691136981_4CH2pdf | 66 |
9780691136981_5CH3pdf | 113 |
9780691136981_6CH4pdf | 143 |
9780691136981_7CH5pdf | 183 |
9780691136981_8CH6pdf | 228 |
9780691136981_9CONpdf | 291 |
9780691136981_10INDpdf | 314 |