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Harry Victor Jaffa (October 7, 1918 – January 10, 2015) 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.
Harry V. Jaffa passed away on January 10, 2015, at the age of ninety-six at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in Pomona, California. Document Library. Hillsdale College is currently digitizing selected papers, research documents, notes, and personal correspondence by Harry V. Jaffa. Hillsdale College Resources.
Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015) was a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, and the author of numerous articles and books, including his widely acclaimed study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (University of Chicago Press, 1959).
12. Jan. 2015 · Harry V. Jaffa, who explored America’s founding in many books, but shifted modern politics with two speech lines that cast Senator Barry M. Goldwater as an extremist, abetting his landslide...
- The Education of Harry Jaffa
- The Political World
- The Claremont “Turn”
In college, Jaffa was a Golden Gloves boxer, and he was an ardent violinist until he became a student of Leo Strauss. Physical pursuits and music were thus at the core of his life, which blended spiritedness (thumos) and longing (eros) under reason (logos). He was an ardent bicyclist until late in his life. His friend and frequent intellectual spar...
Jaffa was part of a team of scholars under the aegis of the American Enterprise Institute tasked with giving policy advice to Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign in 1964. In a memo to the campaign staff, he penned the most famous words of the campaign: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice… moderation in the pursuit of justice is no v...
At Claremont, Jaffa undertook a change of mind that led to a delay in his planned sequel to Crisis, namely A New Birth of Freedom, which was finally completed in 2000. The first indication of that change can be seen in his How to Think about the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration(1978). Here Jaffa openly broke with many former friends ...
12. Jan. 2015 · Harry V. Jaffa, a preeminent professor of political philosophy whose views contributed to CMC's early identity as a bastion of conservatism on the West Coast, passed away last week, on January 10 at Pomona Valley Hospital. He was 96. Jaffa was regarded as a brilliant student of conservative politics.
Jaffa aims to help restore the Ethics ’ importance for serious students of political philosophy, and to explore the tension between reason and revelation in the West.
