Title:
The closing of the American mind : [how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students] / Allan Bloom ; foreword by Saul Bellow ; afterword by Andrew Ferguson.
Author:
Bloom, Allan David, 1930-1992.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2012, c1987.
Call Number:
LA227.3 .B584 2012
Abstract:
In this book, the author (a distinguished political philosopher) argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis marked by obvious declines in appreciation of humanities, a drop in the qualitative output of our university systems, and a disquieting disconnect between today's students and the spiritual and cultural traditions of their heritage.
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Edition:
25th anniversary ed. ; Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9781451683202
Physical Description:
402 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword / Saul Bellow -- Preface -- Introduction : Our virtue -- Part I : Students. The clean slate ; Books ; Music ; Relationships -- Part II : Nihilism, American style. The German connection ; The self ; Creativity ; Culture ; Values ; The Nietzcheanization of the Left or vice versa ; Our ignorance -- Part III : The university. From Socrates' Apology to Heideggar's Rektoratsrede ; The Sixties ; The student and the university -- Afterword / Andrew Ferguson.
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