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Apr 26, 2023 · Harvey Mansfield’s Last Class. After 60 years on the faculty, Harvard’s famous conservative is retiring. by Lydialyle Gibson. Until almost the end, it felt like any normal day in Harvey C. Mansfield’s Government 1026 course, “The Political Science of American Democracy.”. Students filed into a Sever Hall classroom for a lesson on ...
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.
NEH Chairman Bruce Cole recently spoke with this year’s Jefferson Lecturer, Harvey Mansfield, about his love of philosophy and the importance of liberal education. Mansfield has taught at Harvard University for more than forty years and is the author of fourteen books.
Harvey C. Mansfield. William R. Kenan, Jr. Research Professor of Government. My long life in the Department has been devoted to teaching the political science of the best regime: originating in Plato and Aristotle and reformed by the modern political science of Machiavelli and liberal constitutionalism. The best resources of political science ...
Dec 13, 2010 · Those words sound paradoxical coming from Harvey Mansfield, a conservative professor of political theory at Harvard University. After all, Mansfield, who is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, devotes a considerable amount of his scholarly time combating the very nihilism borne out of the writings of that 19th century German ...
Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University. He was chairman of the Government Department from 1973 to 1977, has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University. Mansfield’s many contributions to the study of political philosophy include translations of Machiavelli and Tocqueville, nine books and extensive scholarship on a broad range of subjects, and commentary on contemporary politics.
