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24 produkter
Natural Law and Human Rights
Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
Inbunden, 2020
565 kr
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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 …
Natural Law and Human Rights
Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
Häftad, 2021
393 kr
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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 …
Montaigne
Life Without Law
Inbunden, 2020
1537 kr
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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 …
Montaigne
Life Without Law
Häftad, 2024
537 kr
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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 …
Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference
Pascal's Defense of the Christian Proposition
Inbunden, 2025
666 kr
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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 …
Modern Liberty and Its Discontents
Av Pierre Manent, Daniel J. Mahoney m. fl.
E-bok, 2000
670 kr
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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, …
Metamorphoses of the City
On the Western Dynamic
Inbunden, 2013
520 kr
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What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe's most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's …
Intellectual History of Liberalism
Häftad, 1996
436 kr
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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 …
City of Man
Häftad, 2000
479 kr
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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 …
World beyond Politics?
A Defense of the Nation-State
Inbunden, 2006
685 kr
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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 …
World beyond Politics?
A Defense of the Nation-State
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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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 …
Intellectual History of Liberalism
E-bok, 2019
599 kr
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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 …
Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy
Av Pierre Manent, John Waggoner m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
613 kr
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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. What becomes of people when they are overcome by this passion and how does it transform the contents of life? …
Modern Liberty and Its Discontents
Av Pierre Manent, Daniel J. Mahoney m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
613 kr
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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, …
Beyond Radical Secularism – How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge
Av Pierre Manent, Ralph C. Hancock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
212 kr
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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-mindedness and moderation and attacked by others for suggesting that radical secularism could not provide the political and spiritual resources to address …
Religion of Humanity – The Illusion of Our Times
Inbunden, 2022
349 kr
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"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 anthology in any language of the writings of the contemporary French political philosopher, Pierre Manent, on “the religion of Humanity.” The striking …
Pascal y la propuesta cristiana
E-bok, 2025
148 kr
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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 …
Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy
Av Pierre Manent, John Waggoner m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
641 kr
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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. What becomes of people when they are overcome by this passion and how does it transform the contents of life? …
Seeing Things Politically – Interviews with Benedicte Delorme–Montini
Av Pierre Manent, Ralph C. Hancock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
264 kr
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These autobiographical and philosophical essays, in the form of expertly probing interviews, provide a superb introduction to the work of one of the most significant contemporary political philosophers and a marvelously readable perspective on the French intellectual and political arenas from the …
