Pierre Manent (; born 6 May 1949,

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) is a French political scientist and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the

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, in the

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. Every autumn, he is also a visiting teacher in

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at the Department of Political Science. After graduating from the

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, he became assistant to

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at the Collège de France. He was one of the founders of the quarterly ''

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'' 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

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and a classical liberal, 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

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, Grasset, 2004) *''La raison des nations'' (Gallimard, 2006) *''Ce que peut la littérature'' (with

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, 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