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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.
Harvey C. Mansfield has 25 books on Goodreads with 5978 ratings. Harvey C. Mansfield’s most popular book is The Prince.
He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
- 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 ...
He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville's Democracy in America. His book on manliness has just been published.
May 5, 2016 · Harvey Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He has written or translated works on Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Alexis de Tocqueville and Edmund Burke as well as a book on Manliness.
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Dec 13, 2010 · Since 1965, he has published 14 books and innumerable articles and essays, covering a wide range of topics, including the importance of partisanship in politics, the "essential" conservative philosopher Edmund Burke, and the "misunderstood" Niccolo Machiavelli, whose ideas about a strong executive, Mansfield says, likely inspired the very ...
