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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... tion of the individual's will. Liberalism does indeed model its under- standing of the will on the paradigm of contract. But this is just the problem. The liberal will is fundamentally without content. When we speak of the social ...
... tion of a people's substantive homogeneity. The recent rise in ethnic nationalism is surely a warning that there are still real dangers in this direction. But American political experience has been directly to the contrary. Here, the ...
... tion . To understand the world within which liberalism is a possibility , we have to understand the conceptual architecture of liberalism and its critics . The multiculturalists have succeeded the communitarians in the role of critics ...
... tion and an external repoliticization. This is not a question of the scope of the “coalition of the willing,” but of a realignment of political identity that reflects—and indeed coopts—the new fluidity of the self represented by markets ...
... tion requires exploration of the development of a set of concepts that are not accountable to reason and beyond the range of most of the communitarian discourse: love, sacrifice, and will. These are the sub- jects of part II ...
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