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  • 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 €