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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... politics, which he took to be a more authentic experience than ordinary political prac- tices. I think our politics continues to demand sacrifice, and it is all too often violent. I don't, however, celebrate these aspects of our expe ...
... political experience of popular sovereignty , we will not comprehend the nature of the law in what may be an emerging American Empire . Nor will we understand our deepest dis- agreements with our old European friends or our new enemies ...
... political upon which it depends. In our political life, we affirm liberal values, but liberalism fails as a the- ory of politics. Part II offers a positive account of self and politics, within which liberalism must find its place. The ...
... political order is still a political order. Our liberal- ism must be informed by a better understanding of our politics. Having achieved a better understanding of ourselves as political— and not just liberal—actors, I turn again to the ...
... politics of ultimate meaning will lead to the rise of other forms of ultimate meaning, to understand which we again need to consider the structure of eros and the will. Political forms may be more contingent than the erotic foundation ...
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