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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Paul W. Kahn. what it is that He says. To understand the religious experience of the world, we cannot simply dismiss the belief that it is God who spoke; we cannot concentrate only on the content of that speech. For Americans, the polity ...
... religious belief nor love is reasonable. Neither, in the end, are our political 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 ...
... religious beliefs are to understanding the nature of Christian or Jewish faith. 25 Contemporary theorists who have appealed to Schmitt have tried to “tame” his friend-enemy distinction into a description of opposition within a ...
... religious communities— the former has not undermined the latter. It is much too early, however, to proclaim the triumph of a networked self that takes up its own subjectivity as a project carried out within a global order of law ...
... religious liberty that emerges out of the sectarian wars of the Reformation. Liberalism carries forward the deeper idea that ultimate truth is to be found in a turning away from politics. That turning away of the soul— toward God—is the ...
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