Pierre Manent’s Beyond Secular Radicalism Preface Manent begins with a reflection on the political formation of modern France. Many of his reflections apply […]
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New Manent Seminar: Beyond Radical Secularism
Message from David Alexander: I would like to propose that we read Beyond Radical Secularism by Pierre Manent and do so on the following schedule: […]
Manent, The City of Man, Ch. 4, pp. 137-155, Parts 15-23
15 Locke does not deny that man has an essence or a substance but claims, in fact, that it is unknowable. Man’s being is […]
Manent, The City of Man, Ch. 4, pp. 126-137, Parts 8 – 14
8 John Locke agrees that man is different from the animals, distinguished by his power of abstracting. It is only that we do not know […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, chapter 4, notes
Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter IV: The Hidden Man 1 Manent has described thus far the three major spheres in modern man’s […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, ch. 3, Notes
Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter III, “The Economic System” by David Alexander 1 Where Montesquieu cautiously established the English experience as a […]
Pierre Manent, City of Man, chapter 2, notes
Notes on Chapter 2 of Manent’s The City of Man “All literature, all philosophy, all history abounds with incentives to noble action, incentives which would […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, Notes
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Pierre Manent’s Modern Liberty and Its Discontents, Summary
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Introduction, Pierre Manent’s Modern Liberty and Its Discontents
Notes on the Introduction to Modern Liberty and Its Discontents by Pierre Manent by David Alexander Daniel J. Mahoney locates Pierre Manent among “neoliberal” French […]