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050	0	4	_aHT113 _b.M483 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aManent, Pierre. _e1
245	1	0	_aMetamorphoses of the city : _bon the Western dynamic / _cPierre Manent ; translated by Marc Lepain.
260			_aCambridge : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (385 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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500			_a"Originally published in French as Metamorphoses de la Cite by Flammarion, 2010."
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aPart I. The original experience of the city -- _tpart II. The enigma of Rome -- _tpart III. Empire, church, nation.
520	0		_aMain Description: 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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650		0	_aCities and towns _xHistory.
650		0	_aCities and towns _xPolitical aspects _xHistory.
650		0	_aMunicipal government _xHistory.
650		0	_aCivilization, Western.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aLePain, Marc.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=575622&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell