{"product_id":"natural-law-and-human-rights-9780268107215","title":"Natural Law and Human Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book \u003cem\u003eLa loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme\u003c\/em\u003e is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eNatural Law and Human Rights\u003c\/em\u003e, the French philosopher Pierre Manent provides a searching critique of the doctrines, policies, and practices of ‘human rights’ prevailing today. To interpret or replace them, he proposes the original natural law that is always available to anyone who ponders the basic human experiences. That law, knowable and accessible in our time, is our guide to live for the best.” —Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pierre Manent’s book is a compact feast. Once properly digested, his thesis is original and electrifying.” —Patrick Deneen, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Liberalism Failed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pierre Manent takes on the now-daring task of rehabilitating classical natural law and does so with what might be described as Gallic verve.” —Will Morrisey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dilemma of Progressivism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why is the 'critique of modernity' such a ubiquitous genre? . . . \u003ci\u003eNatural Law and Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, the new book by formidable French political theorist Pierre Manent, provides another framework for understanding the proliferation of these critiques of modernity.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Hedgehog Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a bold book, and Patrick Deneen’s back-cover blurb of this book as a 'compact feast' may undersell it. This book is a treasure chest, for in a little more than 100 pages Manent lavishly offers gems of insight. His greatest jewel of wisdom is that modern man cannot win his fight against the natural law, for it is still part of him, deny it though he may.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Federalist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Manent’s prescient critique of human rights may be the best tool at our disposal to interpret the weaknesses that COVID-19 has revealed. The modern politics of human rights is too individualistic, too theoretical, and too technical, Manent warns, all faults that poison our ability to deliberate the natural ends of man and make a real choices, take real actions.” —\u003ci\u003eThe American Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It takes a bold man to offer public criticism of the idea of ‘human rights.’ . . . The western world is blessed to have such a man—bold, profound, and prudent—in Pierre Manent. All of these virtues are displayed in his excellent new book, \u003ci\u003eNatural Law and Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . The book is rich in insight, the fruit of Manent’s decades of deep meditation on the history of political philosophy and on the intellectual, moral, and political predicament of the modern world.” —\u003ci\u003ePublic Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Manent] details the need for our discourse on human rights to be reintegrated into what he calls an ‘archic’ understanding of human and political existence. Only by seeing rights as rooted in duties and by seeing them in light of the the natural moral law can we be both intellectually sound in our practical reasoning and well-grounded in our claims about human rights.” —\u003ci\u003eInternational Philosophical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In a remarkable book titled \u003ci\u003eNatural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, Manent responds to Montaigne’s challenge. Here Manent persuasively defends the enduring relevance of the old cardinal virtues—courage, justice, prudence, and moderation—and of a conception of non-arbitrary conscience that can provide practical reason with rich moral content.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Manent helps us to see the deep chasm that lies between the modern human rights worldview and that of natural law.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New Bioethics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Why Natural Law Matters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Counsels of Fear\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Order of the State without Right or Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Law, Slave to Rights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Individual and the Agent\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Natural Law and Human Motives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Recovering Law’s Intelligence\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534927561047,"sku":"9780268107215","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780268107215.jpg?v=1755858093","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/natural-law-and-human-rights-9780268107215","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}