Putting liberalism in its place
"Putting Liberalism in Its Place draws on philosophy, cultural theory, American constitutional law, religious and literary studies, and political psychology to advance political theory. It makes original contributions in all these fields. Not since Charles Taylor's The Sources of the Self has there been such an ambitious and sweeping examination of the deep structure of the modern conception of the self." "Kahn shows that only when we move beyond liberalism's categories of reason and interest to a Judeo-Christian concept of love can we comprehend the modern self. Love is the foundation of a world of objective meaning, one form of which is the political community."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Princeton University Press, Princeton, ©2005
328 pages ; 25 cm
9780691120249, 0691120242
55067489
Cultural study and liberalism: The architecture of the liberal world
A brief genealogy of American liberalism
The instabilities of liberalism
Love and politics: The faculties of the soul: beyond reaason and interest
The erotic body
The autonomy of the political in the modern nation-state
Conclusion: the future of the nation-state