Paul J Kahn

Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil

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 inf...

Putting Liberalism in Its Place

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 c...

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

From the "guru to Wall Street's gurus" comes the fundamental techniques of value investing and their applications Bruce Greenwald is one of the leading authorities on value investing. Some of the savviest people on Wall Street have taken his Columbia Business School executive education course on the...

The Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chinghis Khan

This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan`s death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of Chingis Khan, and the creation of an empire that stretched across Eurasia in the 13th century. Adapted f...

The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship

Belief in the rule of law characterizes our society, our political order, and even our identity as citizens. The Cultural Study of Law is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law. Paul Kahn outlines the tools necessary for such an i...

Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation

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 c...

Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty (Law, Meaning, and Violence)

The terrorist attacks of 9/11, followed by the expose of torture in US detainment camps, dampened hopes for a peaceful world in the 21st century and challenged the belief that humanity was on a course of progress toward rational deliberation, the rule of law, and human rights. This book investigates...

Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History)

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view t...

The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship

The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship

Legitimacy and History: Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory

Legitimacy and History : Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory

The Reign of Law: Marbury V. Madison and the Construction of America

Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear

The Reign of Law: Marbury V. Madison and the Construction of America

Putting Liberalism in Its Place

Paul W. Kahn

Paul W. Kahn (1952) is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for...