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Pierre Manent

Pierre Manent

French political scientist and academic (born 1949)

Pierre Manent (French: [manɑ̃]; born 6 May 1949, Toulouse) is a French political scientist and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron. Every autumn[when?], he is also a visiting teacher in Boston College at the Department of Political Science.

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After graduating from the École normale supérieure, he became assistant to Raymond Aron at the Collège de France. He was one of the founders of the quarterly Commentaire and remains a regular contributor.

Manent is a key figure in contemporary French political philosophy and his work has helped the rediscovery of the French liberal tradition. A eurosceptic[1] and a classical liberal, he has been called by The Weekly Standard "the most profound of the Euroskeptical philosophers".[2]

Bibliography

In French

  • Naissances de la politique moderne: Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau (Payot, 1997, reed., Gallimard, 2007)
  • Tocqueville et la nature de la démocratie (1982, reed. 1993)
  • Les Libéraux (1986, reed. Gallimard, 2001)
  • Histoire intellectuelle du libéralisme: dix leçons (1987, reed. 1997)
  • La Cité de l'homme (1994, reed. Flammarion, 1997)
  • Cours familier de philosophie politique (Fayard, 2001, reed Gallimard 2004)
  • L'Amour et l'amitié d'Allan Bloom (traduction) (Livre de Poche, 2003)
  • Une éducation sans autorité ni sanction ? (with Alain Renaut et Albert Jacquard, Grasset, 2004)
  • La raison des nations (Gallimard, 2006)
  • Ce que peut la littérature (with Alain Finkielkraut, Mona Ozouf et Suzanne Julliard, Stock, coll. « Les Essais », 2006, 295 p., ISBN 2234059143)
  • Enquête sur la démocratie : Etudes de philosophie politique (Gallimard, 2007)

In English

  • Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamic Marc A. Lepain, trans., (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013).
  • Democracy Without Nations: The Fate of Self-Government in Europe Paul Seaton, trans., (Wilmington, Delaware: Intercollegiate Studies Instituts, 2007).
  • A World beyond Politics? Marc A. Lepain, trans., (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006).
  • Modern Liberty and its Discontents. Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul Seaton, trans., (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998).
  • The City of Man. Marc A. LePain, trans., (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998).
  • Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy. John Waggoner, trans., (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
  • An Intellectual History of Liberalism. Rebecca Balinski, trans., (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994).

References

  1. [1]
    "Pierre Manent on the European Union". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. [2]
    Lawler, Reinsch, Peter, Richard. "A Populist Uprising". www.weeklystandard.com. The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 14 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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