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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... ultimate value, that is, one for which the citizen may be asked to sacrifice his or her life. Liberal thought, as ... meaning between the citizen and the community considered as a unified, historical subject. Our liberalism operates within ...
... ultimate or tran- scendent value as an historical experience in the world. Neither reason nor interest provides ... meaning that simultaneously defines the self and is greater than the self. Thus, will is intimately connected to love. In love ...
... ultimate meaning. Quite literally, we can be conscripted by the state: it can demand of us that we sacrifice the self for the maintenance of the political community. To comprehend this experience, we need more than the philosopher's ...
... ultimate value . Liberalism has served as a kind of creed . Every creed derives its symbolic energy not from its ... definition . It is the same here as it is with other values : philosophy , or as we might say a priori anthropology ...
... ultimate meaning, is a language that no longer speaks to the condition of many citizens. The rule of law does, but this is law severed from its connection to sovereignty. This emerging networked self is not sufficiently bound to any ...
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