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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... 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 prepolitical conception of a people's substantive homogeneity. The recent rise in ethnic ...
... offers a genealogy of the practice of American liberalism. I explore the resources out of which American liberalism is constructed and demonstrate that these actually support two different forms of liberalism: a liberalism of faith and ...
... offers a positive account of self and politics, within which liberalism must find its place. The fundamental problem ... offer a positive account of the shape of our experience within this dimension of the will. Chapter 4 makes this ...
... offer an answer to the problem of cultural difference, but to illuminate from within the character of our own ... offers a source of ultimate meaning, is a language that no longer speaks to the condition of many citizens. The rule ...
... offers the first and most successful paradigm for linking institutional expression to an ideology. Christianity simultaneously turns away from this world and restructures this world as an expression of faith. A similar ambiguity of a ...
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