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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... ourselves in a world of transcendent value. In our own revolutionary-constitutional tradition, we project this conception of the will onto the popular sovereign. The sovereign will, we say, is the source of law, and indeed of the nation ...
... ourselves , involve a complex historical deposit . That contingent historical deposit , which makes freedom what it now is , cannot be contained in anything that could be called a definition . It is the same here as it is with other ...
... ourselves and of our politics based on the idea of the will. They start not from the perspective of reason but from that of meaning. The question of mean- ing is inevitably a question of identity. Chapter 5 takes up the problem of ...
... ourselves as political— and not just liberal—actors, I turn again to the problems of cultural pluralism in the conclusion. Here, I argue two points. First, we are presently seeing a challenge to that political self-understanding, which ...
... ourselves returning to a more traditional politics of friends and enemies. Symbolically, this return was marked by the at- tack of September 11, 2001, and the American turn to war in re- sponse. The contemporary Western state ...
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