About Pierre Manent Pierre Manent is professor emeritus of political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of numerous books, including Montaigne: Life without Law (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020). Books by Pierre Manent Alasdair MacIntyre An Intellectual Biography by (author) Émile Perreau-Saussine translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski foreword by Pierre Manent