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  • Pascal y la propuesta cristiana
    Pierre Manent
    Aunque relegado a la periferia de la vida europea, el cristianismo sigue siendo su centro activo. Nos gobierna aquello de lo que huimos. Es difícil imaginar una situación más perjudicial. Al haber separado a Dios de nuestras vidas, nos hemos vuelto incapaces de abordar la pregunta más elevada y urgente que el animal racional puede plantearse.A mediados del siglo XVII se decide ...
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    29,12 €

  • Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference
    Pierre Manent / Paul Seaton
    Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent’s penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century polymath and apologist for the Christian faith, Blaise Pascal.Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was the first Christian apologist to address modern human beings on their own terms and present a defense of the Christian religion that still r...
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    58,64 €

  • Montaigne
    Pierre Manent / Paul Seaton
    In Montaigne: Life without Law, originally published in French in 2014 and now translated for the first time into English by Paul Seaton, Pierre Manent provides a careful reading of Montaigne’s three-volume work Essays. Although Montaigne’s writings resist easy analysis, Manent finds in them a subtle unity, and demonstrates the philosophical depth of Montaigne’s reflections and...
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    49,83 €

  • The Tragedy of the Republic
    Pierre Manent / Ralph C. Hancock
    In this discerning essay, first delivered as a lecture at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a key figure in European political philosophy interrogates several of our current crises through a reading of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Julius Caesar.Today we choose-or believe we choose-our leaders primarily in order to defend our interests, to 'represent' us. Yet as Shakespe...
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    11,49 €

  • Natural Law and Human Rights
    Pierre Manent / Ralph C. Hancock / Ralph CHancock
    This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displac...
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    35,72 €

  • Montaigne
    Pierre Manent / Paul Seaton
    In Montaigne: Life without Law, originally published in French in 2014 and now translated for the first time into English by Paul Seaton, Pierre Manent provides a careful reading of Montaigne’s three-volume work Essays. Although Montaigne’s writings resist easy analysis, Manent finds in them a subtle unity, and demonstrates the philosophical depth of Montaigne’s reflections and...
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    58,70 €

  • Natural Law and Human Rights
    Pierre Manent / Ralph C. Hancock / Ralph CHancock
    This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displac...
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    31,29 €

  • A World beyond Politics?
    Pierre Manent / Marc A. LePain / Marc ALePain
    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 without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could enter a world of pure democracy, ...
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    40,55 €

  • A World beyond Politics?
    Pierre Manent / Marc A. LePain / Marc ALePain
    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 without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could enter a world of pure democracy, ...
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    89,29 €

  • The City of Man
    Pierre Manent / Marc A. LePain / Marc ALePain
    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 decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human aut...
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    57,18 €

  • Modern Liberty and Its Discontents
    Pierre Manent
    In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Tocqueville’s analysis of democracy, the political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permane...
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    62,67 €

  • An Intellectual History of Liberalism
    Pierre Manent / Rebecca Balinski
    Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic stat...
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    53,34 €

  • Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy
    Harvey Mansfield / John Waggoner / Pierre Manent
    One of France’s leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville’s writings: the democratic revolution and the modern passion for equality. ...
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    63,00 €