Democracy Without Nations?: The Fate Of Self-government In Europe

by Pierre Manent

2021-01-08 07:49:03

Can Europe survive after abandoning the national loyalties—and religious traditions—that provided meaning? And what will happen to the United States as it goes down a similar path?The eminent French political philosopher Pierre Manent add... Read more

Can Europe survive after abandoning the national loyalties—and religious traditions—that provided meaning? And what will happen to the United States as it goes down a similar path?

The eminent French political philosopher Pierre Manent addresses these questions in his brilliant meditation on Europe’s experiment in maximizing individual and social rights. By seeking to escape from the “national form,” he shows, the European Union has weakened the very institutions that made possible liberty and self-government in the first place. Worse still, the “spiritual vacuity” that characterizes today’s secular Europe—and, increasingly, the United States—is ultimately untenable.

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File size8.75 X 5.5 X 0.5 in
Print pages124
PublisherIsi Books
Publication date October 21, 2013
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781610170840
Pierre Manent is professor emeritus of political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of numerous books, including Montaigne: Life without Law (University...

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