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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... discourse a neocolonial, West- ern enterprise.8 Each approach, when released from the practical compromises of an ongoing enterprise, can push to an extreme. Pursuing the funda- mental dignity and equality of each individual, claims of ...
... discourse of law easily becomes a 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 ...
... discourse. Each believes that if he can properly set the condi- tions of this discourse, then all rational beings will agree with the re- sults.19 The universal character of the norms that emerge is, therefore, limited only by the ...
... discourse, on the one hand, and the individualism of interest on the other. My aim is to bring us face to face with an idea of the politics of the will that presents an ultimate value and demands of us that we be willing to sacrifice. I ...
... discourse of reason becomes a discourse of the body; the political al- ways seems to bridge the private and the public. The conceptual appa- ratus of liberalism is incommensurate with the experience of the politi- cal. Liberalism offers ...
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