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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. 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.

Communitarianism --- Liberalism --- Political culture --- Social contract. --- Social compact --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Political science --- Sociology --- Sovereignty --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Social structure --- Social contract --- Liberalism - United States --- Communitarianism - United States --- Political culture - United States

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Political participation --- Political alienation --- Political culture --- Public opinion --- Allegiance --- #SBIB:324H50 --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Alienation (Social psychology) --- Political psychology --- United States --- Political participation - United States --- Political alienation - United States --- Political culture - United States --- Public opinion - United States --- Allegiance - United States

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European federation --- Political culture --- History --- European Union --- Europe --- United States --- Economic integration --- Political aspects --- Politics and government --- European federation. --- European Union. --- Political aspects. --- Political culture - United States - History - 19th century --- Europe - Economic integration - Political aspects --- United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865

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"[This book] reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, [the author] argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule?one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society?s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America?s global reach. [The author] envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life."

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