Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 10 Ιαν 2009 - 336 σελίδες 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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... individual rights embodied in a rule of law administered by courts, and a general sense of the need for well-regulated markets to satisfy material wants. These liberal values do not, however, explain the PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE 9 □
... senses: first, the sovereign is the source of law; and second, sovereignty defines a political community, establishing the jurisdic- tional reach of law.15 This is the sense in which sovereignty was thought an “ontological” condition of ...
... sense of the nation as a unique historical actor, nor of ourselves as participants in this political project that has both a privileged past and a necessary future. The experience of the will is of the idea become flesh, or of the body ...
... sense in which we speak of American politi- cal culture—or, more generally, of the West—as liberal. Liberalism in this third sense characterizes values and institutions both private and public; this liberalism provides the context ...
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