The city of man /
The "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that...
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| Language: | English French |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1998.
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| Series: | New French thought.
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Table of Contents:
- The self-consciousness of modern man
- The authority of history
- The sociological viewpoint
- The economic system
- The self-affirmation of modern man
- The hidden man
- The triumph of the will
- The end of nature.