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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... 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 in which the nation-state presents ...
... stand squarely in the Enlightenment tradition, with its faith in reason's capacity to generate a just public order. All three are particularly con- cerned with the role of reason as public discourse in the liberal polity. Liberal theory ...
... stand or even to recognize. Nevertheless, these have been the terms within which we have lived our political lives—even as we appealed to liberal values in structuring our law and institutions. The ambition of this part is not to offer ...
... stand for. Literature and art, as well as popular culture, also operate here. My point of access to our liberal culture ... stands opposed to the illiberal; the liberal's understanding of the autonomous character of self is held in ...
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