Modern Liberty and Its Discontents. Edited and translated by Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul Seaton. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.

In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Tocqueville’s analysis of democracy, the political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent discontents which accompany it. Manent is particularly concerned with the effects of modern democracy on the maintenance and sustenance of substantial human ties. Modern Liberty and Its Discontents is both an important contribution to an understanding of modern society, and a significant contribution to political philosophy in its own right.

Totalitarianism and the Problem of Political Representation

Charles Péguy: Between Political Faith and Faith

Strauss and Nietzsche

Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply: Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville’s Thought

De Gaulle as Hero

The Truth, Perhaps

Toward the Work and Toward the World: Claude Lefort’s ‘Machiavelli’

Christianity and Democracy: Some Remarks on the Political History of Religion, or, on the Religious History of Modern Politics

On Historical Causality

Aurel Kolnai: A Political Philosopher Confronts the Scourge of Our Epoch

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