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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... presents itself to the citizen as an ultimate value, that is, one for which the citizen may be asked to sacrifice his or her life. Liberal thought, as well as liberal politics, believes claims for sacrifice are exterior to the purposes ...
... present of interest. We are most familiar with this conception of the will in its Christian form: the will is the faculty that makes possible the experience of grace. This is the will as a capacity to experience. 20 See R. Flathman ...
... presents an ultimate value and demands of us that we be willing to sacrifice. I want to bring liberalism back into touch with our forgotten ultimates, and in the process offer a thicker description of our own ethical and political ...
... present before any differentiation is even recognized. The result, however, is that we never get beyond the starting point. Liberal theory becomes a closed circle of discourse among those already committed to liberalism—in Rawls's terms ...
... present not just in the voice of the Rawlsian original position, but more surprisingly in contemporary multicultural critics of liberalism. The three most important defenders of multiculturalism against traditional liberalism— all ...
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