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Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamic Hardcover – September 23, 2013

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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1 edition (September 23, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674072944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674072947
  • Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.2 x 9.8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA New Dynamic
By Randy J. Earley on December 19, 2013
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Writing in the November 13, 2013 issue of National Review, Paul Rahe, professor of Western Heritage at Hillsdale College says that:

"What Manent has in mind is ... a reconfiguration of "ancient political science," which he persists in embracing "not because it is ancient but because it is political and it alone is wholly political; that is, it is wholly science of the government of humans by humans." He remains persuaded that he was correct in arguing in The City of Man that "modern political science, even in the most 'liberal' authors, such as Montesquieu, tends to make us the playthings of 'causes' that 'govern' us." One cannot defend self-government with a political science that is predicated on a denial of the human capacity for what the Greeks called praxis.

The requisite reconfiguration of political science that Manent seeks is, he believes, ready to hand. It was, he argues, Cicero who, in the time of Caesar and Octavian, revised the political science of Aristotle for the purpose of understanding a res publica in the process of becoming what the Romans would in short order dub a principatus (the private possession of its princeps, or "first man")--and Augustine was the Roman statesman's greatest intellectual heir. In Manent's estimation, Rome's transformation was just the beginning, for it was followed by the founding of the Christian church, which was a city, or civitas--a new political form in its own right.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsVery difficult to read
By Jackal on November 20, 2015
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I know this is not a great review, but I have made serious attempts to read into the book, but I've failed on every occasion. I read a lot of books and this does not happen often. I give up on this book.
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4.0 out of 5 starsManent's study illumines how we have come to where we are in politics
By Kenneth L. Smith on January 9, 2014
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This volume is demanding of the reader, both in terms of history and philosophy, but well worth the effort. I recommend it to anyone willing to put the time in wrestling with its argument. His conclusion that the nation state is the most stable political structure among the alternatives is well put but disconcerting in terms of Europe's evident path.
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