Modern Liberty and Its Discontents

This is a welcome collection of essays by France’s leading Straussian, Pierre Manent. It features a helpful introduction by one of the co-editors, Daniel J. Mahoney, that lays out quite clearly Manent’s intellectual debt to Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss. — Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto ― Canadian Journal of Political Science

The volume covers a wide range of subjects in fifteen essays, felicitously translated from the French by its editors, Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul Seaton. The political reflection found in these essays offers a refreshing alternative to much of today’s slef-satisfied liberal theory. — Marc D. Guerra, Assumption College ― Perspectives on Political Science

The distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent writes of Democratic man in these brilliant essays. He sees Democratic man as modern man, man in history―the man who struggles against his nature, against himself. Manent’s perspective on this problematic being is penetrating, captivating, and―need I say it?―always French. Amazingly, it is also full of good sense. — Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University

The volume covers a wide range of subjects in fifteen essays, felicitously translated from the French by its editors, Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul Seaton. The political reflection found in these essays offers a refreshing alternative to much of today’s slef-satisfied liberal theory. — Marc D. Guerra, Assumption College ― Perspectives on Political Science