Farrell, Thomas2024-01-192024-01-192024-01This version has not been published previously.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/260181See the above abstract.In my wide-ranging 6,350-word review essay "Harvey C. Mansfield's and Walter J. Ong's Thoughts About Male Agonism," I discuss the American political philosopher Harvey C. Mansfield's 2006 book Manliness (Yale University Press) and the American Jesuit cultural historian Walter J. Ong's 1981 book Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press), the expanded version of his 1981 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University -- along with a wide range of other relevant books and articles, including some of my own publications.enHarvey C. Mansfield, Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. FarrellScholarly Text or Essay