Pierre Manent (; born 6 May 1949,

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) is a French

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and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in the

Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron The Centre de recherche politiques Raymond Aron is the research center of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales that specializes in political philosophy. Created by François Furet in 1982, the center's goal was to give a new basis to ...

. Every autumn, he is also a visiting teacher in Boston College at the Department of Political Science. After graduating from the

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, he became assistant to Raymond Aron at the

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. He was one of the founders of the quarterly '' Commentaire'' and remains a regular contributor. Manent is a key figure of the contemporary French political philosophy and his work has helped the rediscovery of the French liberal tradition. A eurosceptic and a

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, he has been called by ''

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'' "the most profound of the Euroskeptical philosophers".

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) *''Modern Liberty and Its Discontent'' (1998) *''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., ) * ''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

External links

“The Return of Political Philosophy”
Pierre Manent, ''First Things'' (May 2000)

Pierre Manent, ''City Journal'' (Winter 2013) {{DEFAULTSORT:Manent, Pierre 1949 births École Normale Supérieure alumni Boston College faculty French political scientists Living people French male non-fiction writers 21st-century French philosophers Writers from Toulouse Members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences