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Mar 21, 1932 New Haven, Connecticut, United States 92 years old
Author, professor
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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.
