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Cultural Study of Law
Reconstructing Legal Scholarship
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2000
568 kr
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Belief in the rule of law characterizes our society, our political order, and even our identity as citizens. Yet despite the importance of this phenomenon, those who study culture have failed to focus on the law. In this work, Paul Kahn provides a full examination of what it means to conduct a …
Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Philosophy for a New Generation
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2013
1101 kr
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Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy-love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith-remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary …
Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Philosophy for a New Generation
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2016
281 kr
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Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy-love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith-remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary …
Legitimacy and History
Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 1993
756 kr
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Aims to present an intellectual history of 200 years of American constitutional theory and an original philosophical inquiry into the possibility of self-government. Kahn sees the development of constitutional theory as a continuous effort to balance self-government and history.
Legitimacy and History
Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 1995
435 kr
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This powerfully conceptualized book is both a rich intellectual history of two hundred years of American constitutional theory and an original philosophical inquiry into the possibility of self-government. Legitimate government in the United States means self-government. Yet Americans also believe …
Reign of Law
Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2002
486 kr
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"A brilliantly innovative and provocative work of pathfinding dimensions."—Robert M. Ireland, Journal of the Early Republic"No scholar of the American constitution or American history can afford not to read this book—at least twice."—Herbert A. Johnson, Law and History Review"Kahn is clearly a …
Origins of Order
Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2020
465 kr
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An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and historyWestern accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a …
Origins of Order
Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2021
565 kr
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An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and historyWestern accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a …
Sacred Violence
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Av Paul W. Kahn
E-bok, 2009
500 kr
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In Sacred Violence , the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to …
Sacred Violence
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2008
323 kr
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In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to …
Out of Eden
Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2006
685 kr
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In Out of Eden, Paul W. Kahn offers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. He uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. Kahn shows us that evil expresses the rage of a subject who knows both that he is an image of an …
Putting Liberalism in Its Place
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2008
436 kr
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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 …
Out of Eden
Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2010
648 kr
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In Out of Eden, Paul W. Kahn offers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. He uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. Kahn shows us that evil expresses the rage of a subject who knows both that he is an image of an …
Democracy in Times of Pandemic
Different Futures Imagined
Av Miguel Poiares Maduro, Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2020
413 kr
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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across borders to the role of …
Democracy in Times of Pandemic
Different Futures Imagined
Av Paul W. Kahn, Miguel Poiares Maduro
E-bok, 2020
399 kr
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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across borders to the role of …
Democracy in Times of Pandemic
Different Futures Imagined
Av Paul W. Kahn, Miguel Poiares Maduro
E-bok, 2020
399 kr
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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across borders to the role of …
Putting Liberalism in Its Place
Av Paul W. Kahn
E-bok, 2009
580 kr
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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 …
Out of Eden
Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil
Av Paul W. Kahn
E-bok, 2009
457 kr
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In Out of Eden , Paul W. Kahn offers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. He uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. Kahn shows us that evil expresses the rage of a subject who knows both that he is an image of an …
Testimony
Av Paul W. Kahn
E-bok, 2021
342 kr
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On her seventy-fifth birthday, the author's mother confessed to an affair more than three decades past. His father's response was unforgiving. Her need to confess met his limitless rage. She acted out of love; he sought revenge. Their battle consumed everything and everyone around them. In the …
Democracy in Our America
Can We Still Govern Ourselves?
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2023
273 kr
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One of America’s most distinguished political theorists examines what happens when national politics enters a small New England townAfter the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020, many citizens looked at the economic and cultural divisions that were causing deep …
Sacred Violence
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Av Paul W. Kahn
Inbunden, 2008
1263 kr
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In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to …
