The City of ManThe "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we have,