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ISBN: 0006863590 9780006863595 Year: 1995 Publisher: London: Fontana,
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Community development --- Public interest --- Social action --- Communitarianism --- United States --- Moral conditions --- Community development - United States --- Public interest - United States --- Social action - United States --- Communitarianism - United States --- United States - Moral conditions
ISBN: 1282086839 9786612086830 1400826314 069113698X 0691120242 9781400826315 9781282086838 9780691136981 9780691120249 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,
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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
ISBN: 080789897X 9780807898970 9781469604459 1469604450 080782299X 9780807822999 0807846090 9780807846094 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chapel Hill ; London University of North Carolina Press
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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, I
Collective settlements -- United States -- History. --- Communal living -- United States -- History. --- Communitarianism -- United States. --- Communitarianism. --- Collective settlements --- United States --- History --- Communitarianism --- communitarian societies --- Colonial America --- the Shakers --- Mother Ann Lee --- George Rapp --- Harmony Society --- the New Moral World --- Robert Owen --- New Harmony --- communal life --- communal values --- the Mormons --- Brook Farm --- the Fourierist Phalanxes --- Immediatism --- Gradualism --- American Utopian Socialism --- the Community of True Inspiration --- Germany --- the Amana Colonies --- religious orders --- monastic communalism --- America --- Free Love --- John Humphrey Noyes --- the Oneida Perfectionists --- the Icarian communities --- Eric Jansson --- the Bishop Hill Colony --- Hutterism --- American Jewish agricultural colonies --- Cyrus Reed Teed --- the Koreshan Unity --- the Theosophical Communities --- Universal Brotherhood --- Father Divine --- the Peace Mission
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