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Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Creating the Modern World

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Creating the Modern World

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Machiavelli, master conspirator of effectual truth, meets his equal in Montesquieu, who takes the task of maintaining the modern world.

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1009320122

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Manliness

By: Harvey Claflin Mansfield

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This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Drawing from science, literature, and philosophy, Mansfield formulates a reasoned defense of a quality hardly obedient to reason.

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Yale University Press

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0300122543

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9780300122541

Educating the Prince

Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield

By: Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.)

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Educating the Prince

Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield

By: Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.)

For forty years, Harvey Mansfield has been worth reading. Whether plumbing the depths of MachiavelliAIs Discourses or explaining what was at stake in Bill ClintonAIs impeachment, Mansfield's work in political philosophy and political science has set the standard. In Educating the Prince, twenty-one of his students, themselves distinguished scholars, try to live up to that standard. Their essays offer penetrating analyses of Machiavellianism, liberalism, and America., all of them informed by MansfieldAIs own work. The volume also includes a bibliography of MansfieldAIs writings.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742508277

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Manliness

By: Harvey Claflin Mansfield

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Machiavelli's Virtue

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Machiavelli's Virtue

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought. "The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."—Hadley Arkes, New Criterion "Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands."—Colin Walters, Washington Times "[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation."—Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal

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University of Chicago Press

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0226503720

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9780226503721

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

A Study of the Discourses on Livy

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

A Study of the Discourses on Livy

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

This study, wrought by one of Machiavelli's interpreters, uncovers the hidden intricacies of the Discourses. It will inform and challenge its readers at every step."--BOOK JACKET.

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0226503704

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9780226503707

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious attempt to understand America and democracy itself. Yet Tocqueville himself remains a mystery behind the elegance of his style. Now one of our leading authorities on Tocqueville explains him in this splendid new entry in Oxford's acclaimed Very Short Introduction series. Harvey Mansfield addresses his subject as a thinker, clearly and incisively exploring Tocqueville's writings--not only his masterpiece, but also his secret Recollections, intended for posterity alone, and his unfinished work on his native France, The Old Regime and the Revolution. Tocqueville was a liberal, Mansfield writes, but not of the usual sort. The many elements of his life found expression in his thought: his aristocratic ancestry, his ventures in politics, his voyages abroad, his hopes and fears for America, and his disappointment with France. All his writings show a passion for political liberty and insistence on human greatness. Perhaps most important, he saw liberty not in theories, but in the practice of self-government in America. Ever an opponent of abstraction, he offered an analysis that forces us to consider what we actually do in our politics--suggesting that theory itself may be an enemy of freedom. And that, Mansfield writes, makes him a vitally important thinker for today. Translator of an authoritative edition of Democracy in America, Harvey Mansfield here offers the fruit of decades of research and reflection in a clear, insightful, and marvelously compact introduction.

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Oxford University Press

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0199746311

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Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Creating the Modern World

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Creating the Modern World

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Machiavelli, master conspirator of effectual truth, meets his equal in Montesquieu, who takes the task of maintaining the modern world.

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Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

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Statesmanship and Party Government

A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Statesmanship and Party Government

A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C. Mansfield examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke and the followers of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke during the mid-eighteenth century. In response to works by Bolingbroke published posthumously, Burke created his most eloquent advocacy of the party system. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the material, Mansfield shows that present-day parties must be understood in the light of the history of party government. The complicated organization and the public actions of modern parties are the result, he contends, and not the cause of a great change in opinion about parties. Mansfield points out that while parties have always existed, the party government that we know today is possible only because parties are now considered respectable. In Burke’s day, however, they were thought by detractors to be a cancer in a free polity. Even many supporters of the parties viewed them as a dangerous instrument, only to be used cautiously by statesmen in dire times. Burke, however, was an early champion of the party system in Britain and made his arguments with a clear-eyed realism. In Statesmanship and Party Government, Mansfield provides a skillful evaluation of Burke’s writings and sheds light present-day party politics through a profound understanding of the historical background of the their inception.

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America after Tocqueville

Democracy against Difference

By: Harvey Mitchell

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Democracy against Difference

By: Harvey Mitchell

America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996). This study draws on Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own time. Three aspects of Americanism inform Harvey Mitchell's book, and cannot be separated from Tocqueville's consideration of the three races. First, he addresses tensions in the United States between ideas of equality and a political system that tries to keep it within bounds. He turns to the relationship between this system and the dynamics of American capitalism. and he analyses the criteria for inclusion and exclusion in American life. Overall, he asks if Americans have surrendered to what Tocqueville called the materialization of life; if that compromise means their abandonment of their original spiritual quest; and, if they are on the way to a radical alienation from politics.

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1139434365

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Educating the Prince

Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield

By: Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.)

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Machiavelli's Virtue

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Statesmanship and Party Government

A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke

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Discourses on Livy

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

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Discourses on Livy

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently readable. With a substantial introduction, extensive explanatory notes, a glossary of key words, and an annotated index, the Discourses reveals Machiavelli's radical vision of a new science of politics, a vision of "new modes and orders" that continue to shape the modern ethos. "[Machiavelli] found in Livy the means to inspire scholars for five centuries. Within the Discourses, often hidden and sometimes unintended by their author, lie the seeds of modern political thought. . . . [Mansfield and Tarcov's] translation is careful and idiomatic."—Peter Stothard, The Times "Translated with painstaking accuracy—but also great readability."—Weekly Standard "A model of contemporary scholarship and a brave effort at Machiavelli translation that allows the great Florentine to speak in his own voice."—Choice

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Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Manliness

Manliness

Educating the Prince

Educating the Prince

Manliness

Manliness

Machiavelli's Virtue

Machiavelli's Virtue

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Statesmanship and Party Government

Statesmanship and Party Government

America after Tocqueville

America after Tocqueville

Educating the Prince

Educating the Prince

Machiavelli's Virtue

Machiavelli's Virtue

Statesmanship and Party Government

Statesmanship and Party Government

Discourses on Livy

Discourses on Livy

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