Metamorphoses of the City

Metamorphoses of the City

by Manent, Pierre

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Main Description: What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europes most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europes ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern. Manents genealogy of the nation-state begins wi…

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  • Full title :Metamorphoses of the City / Pierre Manent.

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Main Description: What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europes most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europes ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern. Manents genealogy of the nation-state begins with the Greek city-state, the polis. With its creation, humans ceased to organize themselves solely by family and kinship systems and instead began to live politically. Eventually, as the polis exhausted its possibilities in warfare and civil strife, cities evolved into empires, epitomized by Rome, and empires in turn gave way to the universal Catholic Church and finally the nation-state. Through readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, and others, Manent charts an intellectual history of these political forms, allowing us to see that the dynamic of competition among them is a central force in the evolution of Western civilization. Scarred by the legacy of world wars, submerged in an increasingly technical transnational bureaucracy, indecisive in the face of proliferating crises of representative democracy, the European nation-state, Manent says, is nearing the end of its line. What new metamorphosis of the city will supplant it remains to be seen.

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  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:2013

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Notes

"Originally published in French as Metamorphoses de la Cite by Flammarion, 2010."

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780674726437, 067472643X, 9780674072947, 0674072944
  • DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674726437
  • oclc:on1087373612
  • LC Classification:HT113
  • Dewey Decimal:307.7609

Subjects

Administration municipale -- Histoire Cities and towns Cities and towns -- History Cities and towns -- Political aspects Civilisation occidentale Civilization, Western History Municipal government Municipal government -- History Villes -- Aspect politique Villes -- Histoire

Writers

Manent, Pierre

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