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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... understanding. My most fundamental claim is that lib- eralism lacks an adequate conception of the will. This may seem a strange claim, given that so much of liberalism is built. 18 See Rawls, Theory of Justice at 48–51 (on reflective ...
... understand ourselves as participants in a meaningful world. This is not a world of abstract ideas, but rather one in which ideas are always attached to particular subjects. The domain of this conception of the will is history, which ...
... understand the self in and through will. It is to read the self—quite literally the finite body—as a point of access ... understanding of the will that is simply unavailable in the liberal tradition. The reason at the center of ...
... understand what is at stake for us in the current controversy over multiculturalism, we must confront some very ... understanding of love, just as the liberal conception of politics as contract must be set within an understanding of ...
... understand themselves not just in terms of a legal order 23 See J. Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political not ... understanding the nature of Christian or Jewish faith. 25 Contemporary theorists who have appealed to Schmitt have tried to ...
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