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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... universal mission of either love or reason. Difference, for them, may not be understood as a problem to be overcome, but as a border establishing identity. Ours, after all, is an era marked by the simultaneous, but opposing, develop ...
... universal values or the appropriate scope of the particular. It is, instead, a warning that nor- mative inquiry can no longer take the form of proscription, but must turn to self-exploration.13 CULTURAL STUDY AND LIBERALISM Cultural ...
... universal discourse, that is, the rule of law is not bound to a particular political space. Political sovereignty, on the other hand, is always bound to a particular community temporally and geographically. Claims of sovereignty reflect ...
... universal character of the norms that emerge is, therefore, limited only by the particularity of the conditions within which the discourse proceeds. The more generally applicable those conditions, the more universal the norms. Again ...
... universal quality of reason and the particularity of interest, but which is not reducible to either. Reason leads us beyond our particularity to a domain of ab- stract ideas in which the uniqueness of the self is either irrelevant or a ...
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