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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... rule of law and political sover- eignty. The rule of law is the normative ideal of a liberal politics: it guarantees individual rights against the state, organizes and limits the exercise of state power, and provides the conditions for ...
... rule of law without first under- standing the way in which it is embedded in a conception of popular sovereignty. More importantly, we will not understand the way in which the nation-state presents itself to the citizen as an ultimate ...
... rule of law does not mean that we can ignore the belief that it is the sovereign who speaks. Liberal theorists generally do just that: they focus on the con- tent of the speech, that is, on what it is the sovereign said or should say ...
... rule of law. Law and popular sover- eignty exist in a reciprocal relationship. Our faith in the popular sover- eign is to some extent a function of the law it speaks. Were the law to appear to us regularly to violate our deepest moral ...
... rule of law does, but this is law severed from its connection to sovereignty. This emerging networked self is not sufficiently bound to any single conception of the content to re- spond to a claim for sacrifice. Rather, individual ...
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