"Science and the Humanities in America's Universities "

(In collaboration with The Project on American Democracy and Citizenship)

8:00 PM Friday, May 01, 2015
Dennison Theatre

"The Wisdom of the U.S. Constitution "

3:10 PM Friday, May 01, 2015
Gallagher Business Building 123

Please join us for a seminar with Harvey C. Mansfield, a conservative political philosopher. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in government in 1961. The next year he joined the faculty at Harvard and has remained there ever since. Professor Mansfield’s conservatism comes chiefly from two sources: his delighted discovery of Leo Strauss’s political philosophy and his appalled reaction to the campus protest movements of the 1960s. In the course of his illustrious career as a prize-winning teacher at Harvard and a legend on the campus as a politically incorrect controversialist, he has been honored with the National Humanities Medal, the Sidney Hook Memorial Award from the National Association of Scholars, and an invitation to give the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

Professor Mansfield’s prodigious outpouring of scholarly work includes:

• Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke (1965)
• Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the “Discourses on Livy” (1979)
• The Spirit of Liberalism (1979)
• Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power (1989)
• America’s Constitutional Soul (1991)
• Machiavelli’s Virtue (1998)
• A Student’s Guide to Political Theory (2000)
• Manliness (2006)
• Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction (2010)
• His translation of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America appeared in 2002.

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.