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  • Public Philosophy and Patriotism

    Essays on the Declaration and Us

    Paul Seaton’s Public Philosophy and Patriotism: The Declaration and Us is a very countercultural book. It advances the provocative thesis that not only is the Declaration worthy of our study today, but its principles and way of thinking about politics can and should be used to judge us and our politics today. That’s countercultural. While conservatives still have a warm place for the document in ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference

    Pascal’s Defense of the Christian Proposition

    by Pierre Manent ...
    Translated by Paul Seaton ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    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 beings on their own terms and present a defense of the Christian religion that still resonates today. A ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Kingdom of Man

    Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project

    by Rémi Brague ...
    Translated by Paul Seaton ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de l’homme, the last volume of Rémi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that, with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Religion of Humanity

    The Illusion of Our Times

    "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 phrase comes from nineteenth-century French thinker, Auguste Comte (1798–1857). Comte coined the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Modern Liberty and Its Discontents

    by Pierre Manent ...
    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, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent discontents which ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Democracy Reconsidered

    Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Montaigne

    Life without Law

    by Pierre Manent ...
    Translated by Paul Seaton ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    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 subtle unity, and demonstrates the philosophical depth of Montaigne’s reflections and the distinctive, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today

    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit

    Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol

    This volume of essays explores the bases and significant aspects of the thought of contemporary French philosopher, historian of ideas, and novelist Chantal Delsol. A member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, she is well known in France as a political analyst and cultural diagnostician. This collection is the first book-length treatment of her thought available in English, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Kenneth Minogue offers a brilliant and provocative exploration of liberalism in the Western world today: its roots and its influences, its present state, and its prospects in the new century. The Liberal Mind limns the taxonomy of a way of thinking that constitutes the very consciousness of most people in most Western countries.While few—especially in America—embrace the description of liberal, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer

    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse.This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Technology and Justice

    by George Grant ...
    Series series A List
    Six magnificent and stimulating essays examining the role of technology in shaping how we live, by one of Canada’s most influential philosophers, now reissued in a handsome A List edition.Originally published in 1986, the six essays that comprise Technology and Justice offer absorbing reflections on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. George Grant explores the fate of ... Read more

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