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Pierre Manent is professor emeritus of political philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of numerous books, including Montaigne: Life without Law (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).
Ralph C. Hancock is professor of political science at Brigham Young University.
Daniel J. Mahoney is the Augustinian Boulanger Chair and professor of political science at Assumption College.
"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." -The Federalist
"[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." -International
Philosophical Quarterly
"In Natural Law and Human Rights, 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
"In a remarkable book titled Natural Law and Human Rights:
Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, 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." -The New Criterion
"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." -The American
Mind
"Pierre Manent's book is a compact feast. Once properly
digested, his thesis is original and electrifying." -Patrick
Deneen, author of Why Liberalism Failed
"Why is the 'critique of modernity' such a ubiquitous genre?
. . . Natural Law and Human Rights, the new book by formidable
French political theorist Pierre Manent, provides another framework
for understanding the proliferation of these critiques of
modernity." -The Hedgehog Review
"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, Natural Law and
Human Rights. . . . 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." -Public Discourse
"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 The Dilemma of Progressivism
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