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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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0300122543

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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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9780742508279

America After Tocqueville

Democracy Against Difference

By: Harvey Mitchell

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America After Tocqueville

Democracy Against Difference

By: Harvey Mitchell

Mitchell's study uses Tocqueville's Democracy in America to address current tensions in American democracy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521030242

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9780521030243

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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University of Chicago Press

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0226503704

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9780226503707

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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Manliness

By: Harvey Claflin Mansfield

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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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022602220X

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9780226022208

Questioning Leadership

By: Michael Harvey

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Questioning Leadership

By: Michael Harvey

This Element posits that questions are the heart of leadership. Leaders ask hard questions that spark creative solutions and new understandings. Asking by itself isn't enough - leaders must also help find answers and turn them into effective action. But the leader's work begins with questions. This Element surveys the main traditions of leadership thought; considers the nature of the group and its questions; explores how culture and bureaucracy serve to provide stable answers to the group's questions; and explores how leaders offers disruptive answers, especially in times of change and crisis. It uses the lens of questions to consider two parallel American lives, President Abraham Lincoln and General Robert E. Lee.

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1009484265

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9781009484268

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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0199746311

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Educating the Prince

Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield

By: Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.)

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Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield

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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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Machiavelli's Virtue

By: Harvey C. Mansfield

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Machiavelli's Virtue

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Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey C. Mansfield begins by analyzing Machiavelli's radical notion of virtue, which culminates in his own personal virtue. Machiavelli shows that princes need a new morality that only he has supplied. Mansfield argues that Machiavelli intended to rule the world through his thought; though a prince without a state, his subjects were the princes who would follow his writings on founding and ruling. This new "perpetual republic" is Machiavelli's own sect - and a remedy for the failures of all previous republics. 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. Following the method of Leo Strauss, he takes up Machiavelli's individual works as wholes and shows him to be the founder of modern institutions that came later, such as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Mansfield thus makes the case that Machiavelli is alive for us and full of the wisdom we need. His thought cannot be dismissed as quaint and obsolete; it is disturbingly relevant for our delusions and our complacency.

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Manliness

Manliness

Educating the Prince

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America After Tocqueville

America After Tocqueville

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

Machiavelli's Virtue

Machiavelli's Virtue

Manliness

Manliness

Statesmanship and Party Government

Statesmanship and Party Government

Questioning Leadership

Questioning Leadership

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Educating the Prince

Educating the Prince

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction

Statesmanship and Party Government

Statesmanship and Party Government

Machiavelli's Virtue

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