A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State |
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| Author:
| Manent, Pierre |
| Translator:
| LePain, Marc A. |
| Series title: | New French Thought Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-12567-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could ent
We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could ent