Description: Further DetailsTitle: A World beyond Politics?Condition: NewEAN: 9780691125121ISBN: 9780691125121Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/23/2006Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 482gAuthor: Pierre ManentTranslator: Marc A. LePainContributor: Marc A. LePain (Translated by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: A Defense of the Nation-StateISBN-10: 0691125120Description: 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 enter a world of pure democracy, where human society would be ruled solely according to law and morality. Borders would dissolve in unconditional internationalism and nations would collapse into supranational organizations such as the European Union. Free of the limits and sins of politics, we could finally attain the true life. In contrast to these beliefs, which are especially widespread in Europe, Manent reasons that the political order is the key to the human order. Human life, in order to have force and meaning, must be concentrated in a particular political community, in which decisions are made through collective, creative debate. The best such community for democratic life, he argues, is still the nation-state.Following the example of nineteenth-century political philosophers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill, Manent first describes a few essential features of democracy and the nation-state, and then shows how these characteristics illuminate many aspects of our present political circumstances. He ends by arguing that both democracy and the nation-state are under threat--from apolitical tendencies such as the cult of international commerce and attempts to replace democratic decisions with judicial procedures.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: New French Thought SeriesTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A World beyond Politics?
Title: A World beyond Politics?
EAN: 9780691125121
ISBN: 9780691125121
Release Date: 07/23/2006
Release Year: 2006
Translator: Marc A. LePain
Contributor: Marc A. LePain (Translated by)
Subtitle: A Defense of the Nation-State
ISBN-10: 0691125120
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: World Beyond Politics? : a Defense of the Nation-State
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: History & Theory, Political
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science
Author: Pierre Manent
Series: New French Thought Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
