Harvey Mansfield and virtue in the arid land of modern liberalism
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2009
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1733-2680
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"Harvey C. Mansfield is one of the most distinguished American political philosophers
writing today, standing at the very center of a bitter debate over the ultimate
meaning of political life in modernity, and here, arguably the most prominent conservative
academic teaching in a major American university. Mansfield is usually
described as a conservative, or in recent years as neoconservative, due to the prominence
some of his alleged students achieved in the ranks of George W. Bush’s
administration. But this is a very inadequate label, unless it is intended to mean,
in general, that he is not a liberal in the contemporary use of the word in America,
and that he has had many students who have achieved public prominence, also in
the conservative ranks. Mansfield in a personal description of his thought concurs
with being labeled as a conservative, using the equivocal understatement that “some
people, with some reason, call [me] a conservative”. But whatever the merits and
demerits of such a description, it seems too narrow, and thus woefully incomplete.
Mansfield’s range of thought and writings is so wide, so versatile, and his presence
as a public intellectual commenting on various aspects of contemporary cultural and
political life so ubiquitous, that it would be difficult to compress his intellectual and
public activities in such a way as to put on it a definite conservative identification.
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Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2009, nr 2, s. 23-84.