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130425s2013 mau b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2013006902 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674072947 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
307.7609 MAN |
| Edition number |
23 |
| Item number |
010754 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Manent, Pierre. |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Métamorphoses de la cité.">Métamorphoses de la cité.</a> |
| Language of a work |
English |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Metamorphoses of the city : |
| Remainder of title |
on the Western dynamic / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Pierre Manent ; translated by Marc Lepain. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; |
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London, England : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vi, 376 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - Content type term (R) |
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| Content type term (R) |
text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) |
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| Carrier type term (R) |
volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"Originally published in French as Metamorphoses de la Cite by Flammarion, 2010." |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
I.THE ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE OF THE CITY<br/>1.What Science for the City?<br/>2.The Poetic Birth of the City<br/>3.The Civic Operation<br/>II.THE ENIGMA OF ROME<br/>4.Rome and the Greeks<br/>5.Rome as Seen by the Moderns<br/>6.Cicero's Inquiry<br/>III.EMPIRE, CHURCH, NATION<br/>7.The Critique of Paganism<br/>8.The Two Cities<br/>9.The Stakes of Mediation. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Main Description: What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe's most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern. Manent's genealogy of the nation-state begins with the Greek city-state, the polis. With its creation, humans ceased to organize themselves solely by family and kinship systems and instead began to live politically. Eventually, as the polis exhausted its possibilities in warfare and civil strife, cities evolved into empires, epitomized by Rome, and empires in turn gave way to the universal Catholic Church and finally the nation-state. Through readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, and others, Manent charts an intellectual history of these political forms, allowing us to see that the dynamic of competition among them is a central force in the evolution of Western civilization. Scarred by the legacy of world wars, submerged in an increasingly technical transnational bureaucracy, indecisive in the face of proliferating crises of representative democracy, the European nation-state, Manent says, is nearing the end of its line. What new metamorphosis of the city will supplant it remains to be seen. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cities and towns |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cities and towns |
| General subdivision |
Political aspects |
| -- |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Municipal government |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Civilization, Western. |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Table of contents |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/0674072944/">http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/0674072944/</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
