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Metamorphoses of the city : on the Western dynamic / Pierre Manent ; translated by Marc Lepain.
LIBRA HT113 .M3613 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manent, Pierre
- Standardized Title:
- Métamorphoses de la cité. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--History.
- Cities and towns.
- History.
- Cities and towns--Political aspects--History.
- Municipal government--History.
- Municipal government.
- Civilization, Western.
- Cities and towns--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 376 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- I The Original Experience of the City
- 1 What Science for the City? 17
- 2 The Poetic Birth of the City 29
- 3 The Civic Operation 63
- II The Enigma of Rome
- 4 Rome and the Greeks 105
- 5 Rome as Seen by the Moderns 152
- 6 Cicero's Inquiry 172
- III Empire, Church, Nation
- 7 The Critique of Paganism 213
- 8 The Two Cities 274
- 9 The Stakes of Mediation 304.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Metamorphoses de la Cite by Flammarion, 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674072947
- 0674072944
- OCLC:
- 840460747
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