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Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where taught from 1962 until his retirement in 2023. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Drawing on classical philosophy, literature, and science, Mansfield argues that manliness is a virtue primarily associated with the male sex which is preferable to widespread institutional gender-neutral ideology.
- History of Political Philosophy
- Machiavelli
- Tocqueville
- Burke/Party Government
- America/Constitutionalism
- Manliness
In A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy(2001), Mansfield provides a concise outline of the major philosophers and topics in political philosophy from Socrates to Heidegger. In addition to summarizing the main themes prevalent throughout the history of political thought, Mansfield also discusses the unique character of this tradition. In his wo...
Mansfield’s scholarship on Machiavelli begins with close textual interpretation and leads to much broader commentary on themes such as the differences between ancient and modern philosophy as well as practical political issues like the scope of executive power. Machiavelli’s Virtue(1996) primarily addresses Machiavelli’s novel concept of virtue in ...
In the introduction to his translation (2000) of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Mansfield calls it “at once the best book ever written on democracy and the best book ever written on America.” In particular, Mansfield’s scholarship emphasizes Tocqueville’s originality in understanding democracy as a comprehensive “way of life” reliant upon cert...
Mansfield began his career with a focus on Edmund Burkeand developed several themes that would appear in later writings, including representation, partisanship and party government, the philosophy of history, and the role of religion in politics. According to Mansfield, Burke’s defense of party government is inseparable from Burke’s broader politic...
Drawing on his study of political philosophy, Mansfield has authored two books and many articles focusing specifically on American politics and political institutions. In these works, Mansfield discusses how developments in political thought have shaped the debates between partisan actors and the practical effects of these developments in everyday ...
Mansfield wrote Manliness (2006) as a “modest defense” of manliness in hopes of providing manly virtue with “honorable employment” in today’s gender-neutral society. Mansfield explores literary and scientific understandings of manliness from Plato to the present and argues that gender distinctions should be acknowledged and accorded proper respect ...
Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2004.
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science.
An introduction to the ideas of the Harvard political philosopher Harvey Mansfield. Includes essays, bibliographies, multimedia, and more.
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