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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... practices and beliefs have achieved a kind of stable synthesis of these two sources. That stability, I will argue in the conclusion, is under considerable stress today as the erotic conception of the citizen's body is displaced by a ...
... practice and liberal theory are continuous activities. My concern in this book is not to elaborate the rich variations on these themes that liberal philosophers have pursued with great creativity—especially since the publication in 1971 ...
... Practice 145 (1992). (“Difficult as it is to find postmedieval philosophers who do not regularly employ the term will and its cognates in discussing human action, officially or programmatically many of them treat it as no more than a ...
... practices. They too are founded on faith. In all of these cases, we are claimed in ways that cannot be contained by the reasonable. Politics, even the politics of a liberal state, remains a deeply erotic phenomenon. The state makes a ...
... practices, but rather to expand our horizon of understanding. Schmitt can be read as celebrating a violent politics, which he took to be a more authentic experience than ordinary political practices. I think our politics continues to ...
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