TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manent,Pierre
AU  - LePain,Marc
TI  - Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamic
SN  - 9780674726437
AV  - HT113 
U1  - 307.7609 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Cities and towns-History
KW  - Cities and towns-Political aspects-History
KW  - Municipal government-History
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Dynamic of the West -- Part I - The Original Experience of the City -- 1 - What Science for the City? -- 2 - The Poetic Birth of the City -- 3 - The Civic Operation -- Part II - The Enigma of Rome -- 4 - Rome and the Greeks -- 5 - Rome as Seen by the Moderns -- 6 - Cicero's Inquiry -- Part III - Empire, Church, Nation -- 7 - The Critique of Paganism -- 8 - The Two Cities -- 9 - The Stakes of Mediation -- Notes -- Index
N2  - Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, from ancient city-states and empires to a universal church and the nation-state. But the nation-state is nearing the end of its line, Pierre Manent says, and what will supplant it remains to be seen
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