Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 pages 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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... actions. Issues of advocacy concern the content and character of the norms given expression and life in the rule of law. Rights, markets, and limited government are transnational norms. The liberal discourse of law easily becomes a ...
... action, officially or programmatically many of them treat it as no more than a name for other (putatively?) more tangible things such as desires, intentions, or dispositions, or they seek to banish it altogether.”) 21 See Plato ...
... actions and one's demands be reasonable.22 Reasonable means moderate and reciprocal: one must offer fair terms of cooperation to others,. 21 See Plato, Symposium 202E. 22 One sees this movement quite literally in Rawls. In 1971, he ...
... . 6, is not just speech, but the action that succeeds speech. 26 See William Lloyd Garrison, Resolution adopted by the Antislavery Society, Jan. 27, 1843. 32 See P. Kahn, “Comparative Constitutionalism in a New Key,” 20 INTRODUCTION □
... action under the color of law " ; it is uncon- stitutional . More than theory is at stake here , for if we allow liberalism to block our view of this political experience of popular sovereignty , we will not comprehend the nature of the ...
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