Pierre Manent
Pierre Manent is a French political scientist and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron. Every autumn, he is also a visiting teacher in Boston College at the Department of Political Science.
After graduating from the École Normale Supérieure, he became assistant to Raymond Aron at the Collège de France. He was one of the founders of the quarterly Commentaire and remains a regular contributor.
Manent is a key figure of the contemporary French political philosophy and his work has helped the rediscovery of the French liberal tradition. A eurosceptic and a classical liberal, he has been called by The Weekly Standard "the most profound of the Euroskeptical philosophers".In French
- Naissances de la politique moderne: Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau
- Tocqueville et la nature de la démocratie
- Les Libéraux
- Histoire intellectuelle du libéralisme: dix leçons
- La Cité de l'homme
- Modern Liberty and Its Discontent
- Cours familier de philosophie politique
- L'Amour et l'amitié d'Allan Bloom
- Une éducation sans autorité ni sanction ?
- La raison des nations
- Ce que peut la littérature
- Enquête sur la démocratie : Etudes de philosophie politique
In English
- Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamic Marc A. Lepain, trans.,.
- Democracy Without Nations: The Fate of Self-Government in Europe Paul Seaton, trans.,.
- A World beyond Politics? Marc A. Lepain, trans.,.
- Modern Liberty and its Discontents. Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul Seaton, trans.,.
- The City of Man. Marc A. LePain, trans.,.
- Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy. John Waggoner, trans.,.
- An Intellectual History of Liberalism. Rebecca Balinski, trans.,.