Philosopher
Harvey Mansfield
Overview
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 he 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. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007.
Mansfield is a scholar of political history, and was greatly influenced by Leo Strauss. He is also the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Mansfield is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. At Harvard, he became one of the university's most prominent conservative figures. In 2023, he retired from teaching as one of the university's longest-serving faculty members.
His notable former students include: Mark Blitz, James Ceaser, Tom Cotton, Andrew Sullivan, Charles R. Kesler, Alan Keyes, William Kristol, Clifford Orwin, Paul Cantor, Mark Lilla, Francis Fukuyama, Sharon Krause, Bruno Maçães, and Shen Tong.
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Philosophers who discussed Harvey Mansfield
Ideas Harvey Mansfield discusses
- Edmund Burke
- The Prince
- Yale University Press
- Washington, D.C.
- Francis Fukuyama
- Harvard University Press
- Princeton University Press
- American Political Science Association
- Homer
- Bachelor of Arts
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Discourses on Livy
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Harvard University
- University of Chicago Press
- Democracy in America
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Leo Strauss
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Western culture
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Plato
- Politics
Place in the tradition
Part of Niccolò Machiavelli.