
The "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago--and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political...

The "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago--and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition,...
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Avant le d veloppement de la d mocratie, les hommes vivaient sous une Loi: celle des anc tres, ou celle de Dieu. Ils se reconnaissaient en principe soumis quelque chose qui leur tait ext rieur et sup rieur. Aujourd'hui, la soci t veut s'organiser selon les droits de l'homme:...