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  • The Religion of Humanity

    The Illusion of Our Times

    by Pierre Manent, Paul Seaton ...
    "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Alasdair MacIntyre

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Émile Perreau-Saussine ...
    Translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski ...
    This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinking in the intellectual milieu of twentieth-century philosophy.Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize, the late Émile Perreau-Saussine’s Alasdair MacIntyre: Une biographie intellectuelle stands as a definitive introduction to the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Idol of Our Age

    How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity

    by Daniel J. Mahoney ...
    This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the “religion of humanity.” It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure of all things has begun to corrupt Christianity itself, reducing it to an inordinate concern for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses of the City

    by Pierre Manent ...
    Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, from ancient city-states and empires to a universal church and the nation-state. But the nation-state is nearing the end of its line, Pierre Manent says, and what will supplant it remains to be seen. ... Read more

    $32.79 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

  • A Free Society Reader

    Principles for the New Millennium

    by Philippe Bénéton, Alain Besançon, Rocco Buttiglione, Russell Hittinger, Ryszard Legutko, Pierre Manent, Richard John Neuhaus0, Thomas Pangle1, George Weigel2, Maciej Zieba3 ...
    Series series Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium
    A Free Society Reader rises to the challenge of freedom in the twenty-first century, offering thoughts and insights with significant implications for citizens of today's brand new world. Our era's most prominent figures in the fields of Christianity and liberty speak about Pope John Paul II's vision of a free society, conceptualize Christianity and political economy, debate issues of democracy and ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • An Intellectual History of Liberalism

    by Pierre Manent ...
    Translated by Rebecca Balinski ...
    Series series New French Thought Series
    Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Natural Law and Human Rights

    Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason

    by Pierre Manent ...
    Translated by Ralph C. Hancock ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy

    by Aurel Kolnai ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Natural Law: Five Views

    by Joel D. Biermann, Brad Littlejohn, Melissa Moschella, Peter J. Leithart, Michael Pakaluk, Ryan T. Anderson, Zondervan ...
    Series series CriticalPoints Series
    The story of "natural law" - the idea that God has written a law on the human heart so that ethical norms derive from human nature - in twentieth-century Protestant ethics is one of rejection and resurgence. For half a century, luminaries like Karl Barth, Carl F. H. Henry, and Cornelius Van Til cast a shadow over natural law moral reflection because of its putative link to natural theology, ... Read more

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