Warsaw/ Tocqueville and the threats of the contemporary democracy

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US Economy and Transatlantic Relations Institute

at  Lazarski School of Commerce and Law

has the honor to invite you to the lecture on:


TOCQUEVILLE   AND  THE  THREATS   OF   CONTEMPORARY   DEMOCRACY: 
FROM  CLASSICAL THOUGHT TO MODERNITY

by

HARVEY  MANSFIELD
Professor  of   Government   at   Harvard   University

Monday,  May  5th , 11.00

Lazarski  School of  Commerce and  Law

Swieradowska  43

room  130, sector C ( 1st  floor)

Harvey C. Mansfield,   William R. Kenan  Jr., Professor of Government  at  Harvard  University. Professor Mansfield  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished   political  thinkers  and the  most  prominent   conservative  academic  teaching at the turn  of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has written about Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a ‘Constitutional American  Soul ‘. 

Many of   his  works   were  also  devoted to  the discovery and development of the theory of executive power. Among the books he translated are three books of Machiavelli  and Tocqueville's  “Democracy in America”. In 2006 he published his book  entitled “Manliness”. Mansfield  was   Chairman of the Government Department  at  Harvard from 1973-1977.  He  received a several  academic awards   including Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships;  he   was   a Fellow  at  the   National  Humanities Center , he also  won the Joseph R. Levenson award for his teaching at Harvard  University.  In 2004 he received a National Humanities Medal from the President  of  the  United  States.