Pierre Manent to Lecture on

“Philosophy and the History of Political Forms” on Oct.

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—Pierre Manent,

of the Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron in Paris, will

give a lecture titled “Philosophy and the History of Political Forms”

at Middlebury College at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17 in the library

of the Geonomics Center for International Studies on Hepburn Road off

College Street (Route 125). Manent is a visiting faculty member at

Boston College this month. The lecture will be given in English, and

is free and open to the public.

Manent is the author of a number of

books, including “An Intellectual History of Liberalism,” “Democracy

and Its Discontents,” and “The City of Man.” Of this last book, Paul

Nelson of the Middlebury College political science faculty has said,

“It is a brilliant successor and complement to Leo Strauss’

masterpiece, ‘Natural Right and History,’ published nearly

50 years ago.”

The campus sponsors of the event are

Brainerd Commons, the department of political science, and the

Geonomics Center for International Studies.

For more information, contact Paul

Nelson, Middlebury College professor of political science and faculty

head of Brainerd Commons, at 802-443-5307.

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