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Woven through the text are Emyl's "Gifts to the Reader
Appearing throughout is Dr
ISBN13: 9780192116949 ISBN10: 0192116940 Material Type: hardcover
he is forced once more to evaluate his life
And that's where the trouble began
The City of Man Specialties Woven through the text areThe "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, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we have,