LEADER 04764nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910777728303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08683-9 010 $a9786612086830 010 $a1-4008-2631-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826315 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756252 035 $a(EBL)445501 035 $a(OCoLC)329858785 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000230888 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211668 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230888 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10197372 035 $a(PQKB)11123491 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001523434 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12630551 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001523434 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11474362 035 $a(PQKB)11740746 035 $a(OCoLC)784193680 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36208 035 $a(DE-B1597)446315 035 $a(OCoLC)979834825 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826315 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445501 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284043 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445501 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756252 100 $a20080124e20082005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPutting liberalism in its place$b[electronic resource] /$fPaul W. Kahn 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2005. 311 $a0-691-12024-2 311 $a0-691-13698-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Putting Liberalism in Its Place -- $tPart I. Cultural Study and Liberalism -- $tPart II. Love and Politics -- $tConclusion. The Future of the Non-State -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. Putting Liberalism in Its Place draws on philosophy, cultural theory, American constitutional law, religious and literary studies, and political psychology to advance political theory. It makes original contributions in all these fields. Not since Charles Taylor's The Sources of the Self has there been such an ambitious and sweeping examination of the deep structure of the modern conception of the self. Kahn shows that only when we move beyond liberalism's categories of reason and interest to a Judeo-Christian concept of love can we comprehend the modern self. Love is the foundation of a world of objective meaning, one form of which is the political community. Arguing from these insights, Kahn offers a new reading of the liberalism/communitarian debate, a genealogy of American liberalism, an exploration of the romantic and the pornographic, a new theory of the will, and a refoundation of political theory on the possibility of sacrifice. Approaching politics from the perspective of sacrifice allows us to understand the character of twentieth-century politics, which combined progress in the rule of law with massive slaughter for the state. Equally important, this work speaks to the most important political conflicts in the world today. It explains why American response to September 11 has taken the form of war, and why, for the most part, Europeans have been reluctant to follow the Americans in their pursuit of a violent, sacrificial politics. Kahn shows us that the United States has maintained a vibrant politics of modernity, while Europe is moving into a postmodern form of the political that has turned away from the idea of sacrifice. Together with its companion volume, Out of Eden, Putting Liberalism in Its Place finally answers Clifford Geertz's call for a political theology of modernity. 606 $aCommunitarianism$zUnited States 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 606 $aSocial contract 615 0$aCommunitarianism 615 0$aLiberalism 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aSocial contract. 676 $a320.51/0973 686 $aMC 6300$2rvk 700 $aKahn$b Paul W.$f1952-$01518984 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777728303321 996 $aPutting liberalism in its place$93763056 997 $aUNINA