The city of man /
French philosopher Pierre Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. With penetrating insight and remarkable erud...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1998
Princeton, N.J. : [1998], ©1998 Princeton, N.J. : c1998 Princeton, N.J. : ©1998 Princeton, N.J. : [1998] |
| Series: | New French thought
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