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In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Toc...
The "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago--and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has de...
Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracie...
One of France's leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville's writings: the democratic revolution and...
Life without Law
In Montaigne: Life without Law, originally published in French in 2014 and now translated for the first time into English by Paul Seaton, Pierre Manen...
A Defense of the Nation-State
We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off...
The Fate of Self-government in Europe
Can Europe survive after abandoning the national loyalties and religious traditions that provided meaning? And what will happen to the United States a...
Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
"Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi n...
Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, from ancient ...
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Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini
"Pierre Manent: here in his conversation are the charm and the wisdom of a man who says very simply that he wants to understand what is." - Harvey Man...
Pascal's Defense of the Christian Proposition
Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent's penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century po...
"Is not modern democracy the finally-found form of the religion of Humanity?" (2007) The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Time is the first a...
Pascal’s Defense of the Christian Proposition
Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent’s penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century ...
How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge
This is the book that took France by storm upon its publication in the fall of 2015. It was praised by some for its rare combination of tough-mindedne...
An Intellectual Biography
In this discerning essay, first delivered as a lecture at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a key figure in European political philosophy inte...