In a sometimes difficult reading, less affordable to non-specialists that the latest works of Pierre Manent, this four fundamental works (the last is not yet published) brilliantly exposes how the political forms invented by Western civilization since the Greek antiquity to modern times fit together, linked together and pile up: the City, the Empire State and Nation invites a critical reflection on the future of liberal democracies.
"The wave that causes us not to forget the waves carry it. We need as Glaucus, swimming in deep waters, since, below us, are staged separate thicknesses of pagan glory of the Christian conscience and modern rights "(Pierre Manent, gaze Policy p. 264) .After totalitarian experiences, Europe continues to imagine reaching the end of history, but as H. VĂ©drine wrote "continuous history."