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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... sovereignty a fundamental norm. 9 See e.g., R. Rorty, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” inOn Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 111 (S. Shute and S. Hurley, eds., 1995). 11 For a skeptical view of statements of ...
... in both. 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal-Communitarian Debate,” in Liberal- ism and the Moral Life 159 (N. Rosenblum, ed., 1989). 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law 10 INTRODUCTION □
... sovereignty, on the other hand, is always bound to a particular community temporally and geographically. Claims of sovereignty reflect a community's un- derstanding of itself as embodying a distinct set of meanings that are substantive ...
... sovereignty. But we will never under- stand the character of the American rule of law without first under- standing the way in which it is embedded in a conception of popular sovereignty. More importantly, we will not understand the way ...
... sovereignty. My own beliefs in this regard, however, are as irrelevant to the analysis as my own religious beliefs are to understanding the nature of Christian or Jewish faith. 25 Contemporary theorists who have appealed to Schmitt have ...
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