Books
The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, I: 1
– The American Political Science Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Jun., 1957), pp. 405-427. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).English Bards and APSR Reviewers
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More
Political Philosophy and Poetry
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More
On Reading Ordinary Prose: A Reply to Allan Bloom
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).A Restatement
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America
– Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Shakespeare’s Politics
– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More
The Unity of Tragedy, Comedy, and History: An Interpretation of the Shakespearean Universe
– In John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000).Chastity as a Political Principle: An Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
– In John Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 2000).Excerpt: The city of Vienna is in bad shape. It has been misruled, or allowed to go without being ruled, for no less than fourteen years. The nominal ruler is a philosopher. However good… More
Macbeth and the Moral Universe
– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More
Thoreau and Lincoln
– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Essays
The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, I: 1
– The American Political Science Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Jun., 1957), pp. 405-427. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).English Bards and APSR Reviewers
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More
Political Philosophy and Poetry
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More
On Reading Ordinary Prose: A Reply to Allan Bloom
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).A Restatement
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America
– Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Shakespeare’s Politics
– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More
The Unity of Tragedy, Comedy, and History: An Interpretation of the Shakespearean Universe
– In John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000).Chastity as a Political Principle: An Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
– In John Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 2000).Excerpt: The city of Vienna is in bad shape. It has been misruled, or allowed to go without being ruled, for no less than fourteen years. The nominal ruler is a philosopher. However good… More
Macbeth and the Moral Universe
– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More
Thoreau and Lincoln
– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Commentary
The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, I: 1
– The American Political Science Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Jun., 1957), pp. 405-427. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).English Bards and APSR Reviewers
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More
Political Philosophy and Poetry
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More
On Reading Ordinary Prose: A Reply to Allan Bloom
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).A Restatement
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America
– Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Shakespeare’s Politics
– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More
The Unity of Tragedy, Comedy, and History: An Interpretation of the Shakespearean Universe
– In John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000).Chastity as a Political Principle: An Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
– In John Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 2000).Excerpt: The city of Vienna is in bad shape. It has been misruled, or allowed to go without being ruled, for no less than fourteen years. The nominal ruler is a philosopher. However good… More
Macbeth and the Moral Universe
– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More
Thoreau and Lincoln
– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Multimedia
The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, I: 1
– The American Political Science Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Jun., 1957), pp. 405-427. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).English Bards and APSR Reviewers
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More
Political Philosophy and Poetry
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More
On Reading Ordinary Prose: A Reply to Allan Bloom
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).A Restatement
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America
– Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Shakespeare’s Politics
– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More
The Unity of Tragedy, Comedy, and History: An Interpretation of the Shakespearean Universe
– In John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000).Chastity as a Political Principle: An Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
– In John Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 2000).Excerpt: The city of Vienna is in bad shape. It has been misruled, or allowed to go without being ruled, for no less than fourteen years. The nominal ruler is a philosopher. However good… More
Macbeth and the Moral Universe
– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More
Thoreau and Lincoln
– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Teaching
The Limits of Politics: An Interpretation of King Lear, I: 1
– The American Political Science Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Jun., 1957), pp. 405-427. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).English Bards and APSR Reviewers
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More
Political Philosophy and Poetry
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More
On Reading Ordinary Prose: A Reply to Allan Bloom
– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).A Restatement
– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America
– Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”
Shakespeare’s Politics
– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More
The Unity of Tragedy, Comedy, and History: An Interpretation of the Shakespearean Universe
– In John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000).Chastity as a Political Principle: An Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
– In John Alvis and Thomas G. West, eds., Shakespeare as Political Thinker, 2nd Edition (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 2000).Excerpt: The city of Vienna is in bad shape. It has been misruled, or allowed to go without being ruled, for no less than fourteen years. The nominal ruler is a philosopher. However good… More
Macbeth and the Moral Universe
– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More