Title

Book Review: Pierre Manent: Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge. (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s, 2016. Pp. xvi, 115.)

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2017

Journal Title

The Review of Politics

Volume

79

Abstract

(excerpt)

The challenges of incorporating Muslims into the life of French society constitute a civic crisis—the inability of French citizens as a whole to envision the common good and act toward common goals. So argues distinguished French political philosopher Pierre Manent, maintaining that the current French situation stems not solely from the global transformation of Islam but also from the crisis of the French and European collective self-understanding

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