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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... institutions founded on our belief in the equal- ity and liberty of every person . This dogged commitment to a universal community is a product of both our Christian and Enlightenment tra- 10 This political antinomy had an epistemic ...
... institutions of governance. The boundaries of the state often appear as a problem to be overcome. To put liberalism in its proper place is to take up the question of the nature of the unity of the political community—in particular, of ...
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