Harvey Mansfield

Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Jr. ( born March 21, 1932 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American political theorist.

Life

Mansfield was born in 1932 as the son of the Columbia professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Sr.. He studied from 1949 to 1962 at Harvard University. In between ( 1954-1956 ) he was a soldier in the U.S. Army. After the Ph.D. he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962 he returned to Harvard, where he Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government and in 1993 William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government in 1988. He is also the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Previously, he was a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association and president of the New England Historical Association. From 1973 to 1977 he was Chairman of the Government Department at Harvard University. Mansfield translated works of Aristotle, Edmund Burke, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli and Alexis de Tocqueville into English. A great influence exerted on him from the political philosophy of Leo Strauss. Among his academic students include, inter alia, Andrew Sullivan, Alan Keyes, Mark Lilla and Francis Fukuyama. Mansfield is married and has three children.

Awards

Writings (selection )

  • Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965.
  • The Spirit of Liberalism. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1978.
  • Machiavelli 's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1979.
  • Selected Letters of Edmund Burke. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984.
  • Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. Free Press, New York 1989.
  • America's Constitutional Soul. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993.
  • A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, 2000.
  • Manliness. Yale University Press, New Haven 2006.
  • Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.
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