
Democracy without Nations?
The Fate of Self-Government in Europe
Pierre Manent(Author)
ISI Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-61017-084-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 maximising 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 characterises today's secular Europe-and, increasingly, the United States-is ultimately untenable.
The eminent French political philosopher Pierre Manent addresses these questions in his brilliant meditation on Europe's experiment in maximising 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 characterises today's secular Europe-and, increasingly, the United States-is ultimately untenable.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wilmington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-61017-084-0 (9781610170840)
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Pierre Manent teaches political philosophy in the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron in Paris, France. His previous works in English include the groundbreaking Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy, The City of Man, and An Intellectual History of Liberalism.