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  • Out of Eden

    Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    "Paul Kahn's book is one of the deepest meditations on evil that I have read. It is insightful, rich, and original." —Moshe Halbertal, Hebrew University, JerusalemIn 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 ... Leer más

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  • Testimony

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    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 middle of this struggle, she was diagnosed with cancer. Two years later, she died. Testimony is a son's ... Leer más

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  • Democracy in Times of Pandemic

    Different Futures Imagined

    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 expertise, key democratic concepts both old and new are now being put to the test. The future of ... Leer más

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  • Democracy in Our America

    Can We Still Govern Ourselves?

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    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 disruptions in American politics and asked, “What is happening to us?” Paul W. Kahn explores these ... Leer más

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  • War after September 11

    Series series Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
    What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long been part of the debate over the ethics of warfare. They all took on new meaning after terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners on September 11, 2001.War after September 11 considers the just aims and ... Leer más

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  • Origins of Order

    Project and System in the American Legal Imagination

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    Series series Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
    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 system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered.Paul W. ... Leer más

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  • Making the Case

    The Art of the Judicial Opinion

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn’s classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion, the student learns the nature of legal argument. Thus Kahn’s exposition of the opinion ... Leer más

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  • Putting Liberalism in Its Place

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Sacred Violence

    Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

    de Paul W. Kahn ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    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 political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Kahn ... Leer más

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  • Democracy in Chains

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