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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... begins by look- ing at geopolitical conflict, but is led to a critique of cultural pluralism within the United States. 13 I have developed this conception of self-exploration in P. PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE 7 □
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