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Metamorphoses of the City - On the Western Dynamic (Hardcover)
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Metamorphoses of the City - On the Western Dynamic (Hardcover)
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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 Europe's most
influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a
sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition since ancient times to
generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a
reflection on what it means to be modern. Manent's 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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