Harry V. Jaffa
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American historian and political philosopher
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- PhD Political Science The New School
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harry Victor Jaffa was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist, and professor. He was a professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Graduate University, and was a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute. Robert P. Kraynak says his "life work was to develop an American application of Leo Strauss's revival of natural-right philosophy against the relativism and nihilism of our times".
Harry V. Jaffa's Published Works
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- Crisis of the house divided : an interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1960) (72)
- Crisis of the house divided (1959) (39)
- Thomism and Aristotelianism: A Study of the Commentary by Thomas Aquinas on the Nicomachean Ethics (1979) (34)
- A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000) (33)
- Equality and Liberty (1965) (27)
- Thomism and Aristotelianism (1953) (26)
- Shakespeare's Politics (1964) (20)
- The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity: A Critical Analysis of Polybius' Political Ideas . By Kurt von Fritz. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1954. Pp. xiv, 490. $7.50.) (1956) (19)
- The Case Against Political Theory (1960) (12)
- Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question (1994) (12)
- What Were the "Original Intentions" of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States? (1987) (11)
- The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, Act I, Scene 1 (1957) (9)
- The Conditions of Freedom: Essays in Political Philosophy (1975) (7)
- Storm Over the Constitution (1999) (5)
- Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition (2009) (5)
- Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (1999) (5)
- In the name of the people: speeches and writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio campaign of 1859 (1960) (3)
- Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom (1987) (3)
- Comment on Oppenheim: In Defence of “The Natural Law Thesis” (1957) (2)
- II. Dear Professor Drury (1987) (2)
- Patriotism and Morality (1962) (2)
- Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West (2012) (2)
- 100 years of emancipation (1964) (2)
- Expediency and morality in the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1957) (2)
- Natural Right and Political Right: Essays in Honor of Harry V Jaffa (1984) (1)
- “Value Consensus” in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1958) (1)
- Crisis of the house divided : an interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates : with a new preface (1961) (1)
- The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns (2011) (1)
- Kendall & Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition (1975) (1)
- Conflicts within the Idea of the Liberal Tradition (1963) (1)
- Leo Strauss's Churchillian Speech and the Question of the Decline of the West (1985) (1)
- On the racism industry (1996) (0)
- The speech that changed the world (1997) (0)
- Bullets to Ballots (2021) (0)
- Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory. By Hamburger Max. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1951. Pp. xvi, 191. $3.75.) (1953) (0)
- Dred Scott Revisited (2008) (0)
- "Who Killed Cock Robin?" A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to "Jaffa Divides the House" by Robert L. Stone (1990) (0)
- POWER AND MONARCHY: SHAKESPEARE’S PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN MACBETH AND HAMLET (2017) (0)
- Understanding Justice Sutherland as He Understood Himself (reviewing The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights by Hadley Arkes) (1996) (0)
- Seven Answers for Professor Anastaplo (1990) (0)
- Judicial Conscience and Natural Rights: A Reply to Professor Ledewitz (1988) (0)
- On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty (2017) (0)
- Too Good to be True? (2009) (0)
- Book review: Sexual Orientation and the Law. By Richard D. Mohr. (1991) (0)
- The "natural limits" of slavery expansion (1959) (0)
- Books in Review (1973) (0)
- A Reply to Michael Zuckert's “Jaffa's New Birth: Harry Jaffa at Ninety” (2009) (0)
- BOWLE, JOHN. Politics and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century: An Historical In troduction. Pp. 512. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 25 s (1955) (0)
- Thomas aquinas meets Thomas Jefferson (2006) (0)
- PSR volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1957) (0)
- Strauss on Political Philosophy (1961) (0)
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