Pierre Manent
Biographic Data
| ID | 512842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Manent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Manent |
| SIGNATURE | MANENT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | École des hautes études en sciences sociales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 100 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 100 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comment Aron écrit l’histoire
Présence
Le « monde » peut-il nous donner la règle
On assiste, depuis la fin du siècle dernier, à une critique radicale de la « théorie littéraire » et, beaucoup plus généralement, de tous les champs liés à l’essor des formalismes du début du xxe siècle et de leur théorisation – valant définition – de la littérature. Ces critiques ont notamment pour point aveugle la question de la fonction anthropologique du fait littéraire et de sa continuité. Aujourd’hui, la persistance de ce questionnement par…
Montaigne
Vivre et mourir avec Pascal
L'histoire et la vérité selon Alain Besançon
Individualisme et christianisme
Vers une dépolitisation de la France
L'Europe et la question chrétienne
Hommage à Alain Pons
La religion de l'humanité et l'affadissement du christianisme
Natural Law and Human Rights
Natural Law and Human Rights
"Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the nat…
La place de l'islam en France
Professeur d'admiration
Qui est le « bon Samaritain
L'Europe est-elle (encore) chrétienne
Essayons d'être un peu plus forts
Leo Strauss, philosophe politique
L'action politique devant l'indétermination démocratique
Par son attention aux dérives autoritaires des organisations révolutionnaires, Claude Lefort entend préserver l'audace du fait révolutionnaire. Mais ce qui a été principe d'ouverture, le pouvoir du peuple, peut devenir un principe de clôture. Ainsi, Lefort reste aveugle à la nécessité de l'action gouvernementale et surestime l'indétermination de la démocratie moderne
L'État et le gouvernement
Retrouver la raison
Rétrécissement du temps
Un discours amical et direct
Raymond Aron et la religion
Democracy Without Nations
Democracy without Nations? Pierre Manent (bio) If we try to characterize the contemporary political world, our first observation will no doubt be the victory of democracy, with 1945 and 1989 marking the dates of the collapse (in quite different ways) of the two most terrible enemies that democracy faced in our century. This does not mean that democracy is everywhere peacefully established, nor that where it is established it may not encounter con…
On Modern Individualism
On Modern Individualism Pierre Manent (bio) On the last page of the final chapter of Democracy in America, where Alexis de Tocqueville puts forth what he calls the “general survey” of his subject, he sums up the comparison that he has just made between the new democracy and the old order: “They are like two distinct orders of human beings.” In fact, this is indeed the feeling that both partisans and adversaries of the modern democratic and indivi…
The Crisis of Liberalism
Liberalism as a governing order is barely two centuries old. A response to the great alternatives presented by Europe's political history, it represents a unique synthesis of the ancient and the modern. But globalization has cast a deep shadow across liberalism's future by separating economic activity and the political community of belonging. Thus we are threatened not only by massive impoverishment but also by a political dislocation and a moral…
Modern Democracy as a System of Separations
All of us have a certain primordial, prescientific knowledge of the political regime in which we live, a kind of knowledge that we gather by observation, experience, and immersion as members of society and as citizens. But among all the things that we know or think we know about democracy, which are true and important and which are merely illusory or insignificant impressions? How should we arrange our impressions in order to transform them into …
Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply. Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville's Thought
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul SeatonPierre Manent, one of France's leading political philosophers, is a professor of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Daniel J. Mahoney is an associate professor of politics at Assumption College, and Paul Seaton is a doctoral candidate in political science at Fordham University. The translators are coeditors of Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: Selected Writ…
La démocratie sans la nation
Raymond Aron éducateur
Le discours sans maître de Claude Lefort
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L'essor de La Nouvelle Revue Française
La philosophie morale d'Aurel Kolnai
La crise de l'Église
Lire Michel Foucault
Aux origines du libéralisme
Régis Debray révolutionne la science
La raison d'Israël
À propos d'un « Te Deum
Démocratie et totalitarisme. À propos de Claude Lefort
Commentaire
L’article d’Edward Pessen ne se préte pas aisément à la discussion: il veut trop prouver. Si réellement Tocqueville a commis des erreurs aussi nombreuses et aussi graves que Paffirme son critique, alors on ne comprend pas la notoriété dont il jouit, on ne comprend meme pas pourquoi E
Tocqueville's Democratic Man
THE MAN WHO LIVES IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, WHO MEETS and wishes to meet only his fellows and peers, does not allow himself to be influenced by others. He searches for his opinions within himself, but he finds them, or at least recognizes them, only if they are shared by his peers, if they are widely believed and are supported by the whole weight of society, His thoughts easily take an abstract cast, while his heart is freely open to pity. He is a…
La leçon de ténèbres de René Girard
The Neglected (IV) Charles Péguy
CHARLES PÉGUY IS CERTAINLY NOT FORGOTTEN. IN DEATH, as in life, he remains a controversial figure. A man of passion, he still arouses passion in others. Even today, at least in France, a book on Péguy is almost certain to give rise to polemics. The details of his political, sentimental and religious life are scrutinized in minute detail. What is most often neglected, what is not taken seriously in this stormy celebrity, is the thinker or, if you …
Le totalitarisme et le problème de la représentation politique
La politique et le sacré
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
Les infortunes de la liberté
Raymond Aron éducateur
Situation du libéralisme
Two Views of the Mitterrand Presidency (1981–88)
The French presidential election will be held after the publication of this issue. Our summer issue will contain an analysis in depth of the results and the foreseeable consequences. But our readers will find here two contrasting interpretations of the significance of the Mitterrand presidency of 1981–88, the first in the history of the French Fifth Republic which produced an exercise in ‘cohabitation
Letter from France — July 1988
France is perhaps today the one European country about which it is most difficult to speak with any degree of accuracy. A phrase used by General de Gaulle during the events of May 1968 applies perfectly to France today, different as it is from France as it was then: ‘La situation est insaisissable’. (‘The situation is beyond our grasp.’) Let us recall the principal facts
L'État moderne
Bonjour tristesse
Critique
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