Harvey Mansfield

Harvey Mansfield, 2017

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

Life

Mansfield was born in 1932 to Columbia Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Sr. He studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1962 . In between (from 1954 to 1956) he was a soldier in the US Army . After the Ph.D. he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1962 he returned to Harvard, where he became Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government in 1988 and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government in 1993 . He is also a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . He was previously a council member 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 wrote studies on Aristotle , Edmund Burke , Thomas Hobbes , Niccolò Machiavelli and Alexis de Tocqueville ; he also translated works by Machiavelli and Tocqueville into English. The political philosophy of Leo Strauss exerted a great influence on him . His academic students include: a. Andrew Sullivan , Alan Keyes , Mark Lilla and Francis Fukuyama . Mansfield is married with three children.

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.

Eric P. Newcomer: The Harvey Mansfield Story: Harvard's Political Philosopher . In: The Harvard Crimson , March 1, 2012.

↑ Curriculum Vitae Harvey C. Mansfield (PDF; 120 kB), Harvard University, accessed on November 23, 2013.
↑ Harvey Mansfield Biography , NEH, accessed November 23, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Mansfield, Harvey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mansfield, Harvey Claflin Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Haven , Connecticut