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James Burnham
James Burnham
|Born||November 22, 1905|
|Died||July 28, 1987 (aged 81)|
Kent, Connecticut, U.S.
|Spouse||
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Marcia Lightner
(m. 1934)
|Relatives||David Burnham (brother)|
|Academic background|
|Education|
|Influences|
|Academic work|
|Discipline||Philosophy|
|Sub-discipline||Political philosophy|
|School or tradition|
|Institutions||New York University|
|Notable students||Maurice Natanson|
|Notable works||The Managerial Revolution (1941)|
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (1943)
|Notable ideas||Managerial class|
Managerial state
|Influenced|
James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist. He chaired the New York University Department of Philosophy; his first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931). Burnham became a prominent Trotskyist activist in the 1930s. A year before he wrote the book, he rejected Marxism and became an influential theorist of the political right as a leader of the American conservative movement.[1] His most famous book, The Managerial Revolution (1941), speculated on the future of an increasingly proceduralist hence sclerotic society. Burnham was an editor and a regular contributor to William F. Buckley's conservative magazine National Review on a variety of topics. He rejected containment of the Soviet Union and called for the rollback of communism worldwide.[2][3]
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1905,[4] James Burnham was the son of Claude George Burnham, an English immigrant and executive with the Burlington Railroad.[5] James was raised as a Roman Catholic but rejected Catholicism as a college student, professing atheism for the rest of his life.[6] He graduated at the top of his class at Princeton University before attending Balliol College, Oxford, where his professors included J. R. R. Tolkien and Martin D'Arcy. In 1929, he became a professor of philosophy at New York University.[7]
In 1934, he married…