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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... particular community, they are more likely to look to an original position that is a kind of pre- political abstraction. The same failure to attend to the unity of the particular historical community leads many liberals—not just theore ...
... particular political space. Political sovereignty, on the other hand, is always bound to a particular community temporally and geographically. Claims of sovereignty reflect a community's un- derstanding of itself as embodying a distinct ...
... particular act, while participation in the popular sovereign is constitutive of the citizen's self-understanding. In considering the problems of cultural pluralism, we have been the prisoners of liberalism. The approach of liberalism to ...
... particular subjects. The domain of this conception of the will is history, which refers equally to a meaningful past and a significant future; it is neither the timelessness of reason, nor the pres- ent of interest. We are most familiar ...
... particular; love expresses a faith in a world that embodies a transcendent meaning. This is why Plato can describe love as daimon, mediating between the gods and the merely mortal.21 The world constructed by the will is miraculous; it ...
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