Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton

The Western inheritance is under sustained theoretical and practical assault.

Legitimate self-criticism has given way to nihilistic self-loathing and cultural, moral, and political repudiation is the order of the day.

Yet, as Daniel J.

Mahoney shows in this learned, eloquent, and provocative set of essays, two contemporary philosophic thinkers, Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent, have––separately and together––traced a path for the renewal of politics and practical reason, our civilized inheritance, the natural moral law, and the soul as the enduring site of self-conscious reflection, moral and civic agency, and mutual accountability.