Harvey Mansfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Harvey Mansfield

Author, professor

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1932

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profession: writer, translator, political scientist, university teacher, academic, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Harvey Mansfield

  • 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, where he has taught since 1962.
  • He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007.
  • He is a Carol G.
  • Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
  • He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. Mansfield is the author and co-translator of studies of and/or by major political philosophers such as Aristotle, Edmund Burke, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Thomas Hobbes, of Constitutional government, and of Manliness (2006).
  • In interviews Mansfield has acknowledged the work of Leo Strauss as the key modern influence on his own political philosophy.Among his most notable former students include: Charles R.
  • Kesler, Mark Blitz, Tom Cotton, Andrew Sullivan, Alan Keyes, William Kristol, Clifford Orwin, Paul Cantor, Delba Winthrop, Mark Lilla, Francis Fukuyama, Sharon Krause and Shen Tong.

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