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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... fail to respond critically, and about cultural impe- rialism when we do respond. The problem is both theoretical and practical: theoretical, when we struggle to find a form of reasoning that can occupy a position between a discredited ...
... fail to account for central aspects of our experience of our- selves and of our relationship to the political community. The assump- tions within which liberalism operates generate the familiar opposi- tions that have dominated modern ...
... fails to see. Most of all, liberalism fails to see the way in which citizens commit- ted to American political culture occupy a meaningful world. It fails to see what I will describe as the erotic foundations of modern political life ...
... failed to focus on the ways in which our politics remains deeply enmeshed in war and the threat of war.25 Citizens understand themselves not just in terms of a legal order 23 See J. Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political not ...
... fail: the discourse of reason becomes a discourse of the body; the political al- ways seems to bridge the private ... fails as a the- ory of politics. Part II offers a positive account of self and politics, within which liberalism must ...
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