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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... never quite meets our moral standards. While the structure of Schmitt's theory of the political offers a useful set of concepts, the content of his theory is not similarly useful. He believed that sovereignty had to be based on some ...
... never resolved the deep tension between these forms. Our ambiguous attitude toward difference—shifting between tolerance and universalism—reflects this deeper ambiguity in our liberalism. This chapter also traces the way in which ...
... never a 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 ...
... never get beyond the starting point. Liberal theory becomes a closed circle of discourse among those already committed to liberalism—in Rawls's terms, among those who maintain comprehensive doctrines open to the demand of reasonableness ...
... never seems to get to the point of recognition of just those differences. This closed character of liberal tolerance is present not just in the voice of the Rawlsian original position, but more surprisingly in contemporary multicultural ...
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