Books, Arts & Manners: Modern Times

The City of Man, by Pierre Manent, translated by Marc A. LePain, with an introduction by Jean Bethke Elshtain (Princeton, 225 pp., $28.95)

PIERRE Manent’s The City of Man is nothing less than a diagnosis of the modern condition. Subtly written and containing passages of deep learning, it presents a powerful challenge to the modern world’s image of itself.

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The City of Man, by Pierre Manent, translated by Marc A. LePain, with an introduction by Jean Bethke Elshtain (Princeton, 225 pp., $28.95)

PIERRE Manent’s The City of Man is nothing less than a diagnosis of the modern condition. Subtly written and containing passages of deep learning, it presents a powerful challenge to the modern world’s image of itself.