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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... perspective from the adults to the chil- dren in these groups, or from the group's relationship to the dominant culture to its relationship to dissident minorities within its own geo- graphic reach, is likely to produce just the ...
... perspective). In his terms, this is a work in political ontology. Yet the distinction is not without problems and ... perspectives. We live our lives within symbolic domains; we never get beyond the categories of our own imaginations ...
... perspective of reason, which means temporarily to bracket one's own immediate interests as a source of direction for the will, there will be only competition and chaos. To bracket interest and pursue the com- mon perspective of reason ...
... perspective of reason but from that of meaning. The question of mean- ing is inevitably a question of identity. Chapter 5 takes up the problem of individual identity, love, and chapter 6 that of collective identity, politics. Together ...
... perspective of Rawls's original position. From the point of view of this imagined discourse, differ- ences are literally of no interest; they cannot even be seen. But, of course, they are exactly what is of most interest from the point ...
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