Modern Liberty and Its Discontents

Pierre Manent is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of many books, including An Intellectual History of Liberalism (Princeton), Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and The City of Man (Princeton). Daniel Mahoney is associate professor of politics at Assumption College, and the author of The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992) and DeGaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy (Praeger). Paul Seaton is university fellow at Fordham University.

Manent masterfully decsrcibes the depth of the revolution and its future direction.

• Chapter 1 Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: An Introduction to Political Reflectionof Pierre ManentPart 2 Reflections on an Intellectual ItineraryChapter 3 The Truth, PerhapsPart 4 Essays in the History of Political PhilosophyChapter 5 Toward the Work and Toward the World: Claude Lefort's MachiavelliChapter 6 Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply: Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville's ThoughtPart 7 Christianity and PoliticsChapter 8 Charles Péguy: Between Political Faith and FaithChapter 9 Christianity and Democracy: Some Remarks on the Political History of Religion/ or/ on the Religious History of Modern PoliticsPart 10 Understanding TotalitarianismChapter 11 Totalitarianism and the Problem of Political RepresentationChapter 12 Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our EpochPart 13 Democratic IndividualismChapter 14 On Modern IndividualismChapter 15 Recovering Human Attachments: An Introduction to Allan Bloom's Love and FriendshipPart 16 Thinking and Acting PoliticallyChapter 17 Raymond Aron and the Analysis of Modern SocietyChapter 18 De Gaulle as HeroChapter 19 Democracy without Nations?Part 20 Reflections on Strauss, Nature, and HistoryChapter 21 Strauss and NietzscheChapter 22 On Historical CausalityPart 23 Liberalism and Conservatism TodayChapter 24 Liberalism and Conservatism: The Transatlantic MisunderstandingChapter 25 Index