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Modern liberty and its discontents
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- Creator
- Pierre Manent ; edited and translated by Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul Seaton ; with an introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney
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- English
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- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- 237 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0847690873, 9780847690879, 0847690881, 9780847690886
- OCLC
- ocm38870607
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: An Introduction to the Political Reflection of Pierre Manent / Daniel J. Mahoney -- Pt. 1. Reflections on an Intellectual Itinerary -- The Truth, Perhaps -- Pt. 2. Essays in the History of Political Philosophy -- Toward the Work and Toward the World: Claude Lefort's Machiavelli -- Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply: Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville's Thought -- Pt. 3. Christianity and Politics -- Charles Peguy: Between Political Faith and Faith -- Christianity and Democracy: Some Remarks on the Political History of Religion, or, on the Religious History of Modern Politics -- Pt. 4. Understanding Totalitarianism -- Totalitarianism and the Problem of Political Representation -- Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch -- Pt. 5. Democratic Individualism -- On Modern Individualism -- Recovering Human Attachments: An Introduction to Allan Bloom's Love and Friendship -- Pt. 6. Thinking and Acting Politically -- Raymond Aron and the Analysis of Modern Society -- De Gaulle as Hero -- Democracy without Nations? -- Pt. 7. Reflections on Strauss, Nature, and History -- Strauss and Nietzsche -- On Historical Causality -- Pt. 8. Liberalism and Conservatism Today -- Liberalism and Conservatism: The Transatlantic Misunderstanding