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Democracy without Nations?: The Fate of Self-Government in Europe
Democracy without Nations The Fate of SelfGovernment in Europe Author:Pierre Manent Can Europe survive after abandoning the national loyalties?and religious traditions?that provided meaning? And what will happen to the United States as it goes down a similar path?The eminent French political philosopher Pierre Manent addresses these questions in his brilliant meditation on Europe?s experiment in maximizing individual and social... more » rights. By seeking to escape from the ?national form,? he shows, the European Union has weakened the very institutions that made possible liberty and self-government in the first place. Worse still, the ?spiritual vacuity? that characterizes today?s secular Europe?and, increasingly, the United States?is ultimately untenable.« less