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The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students / Allan Bloom.
- Title
- The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students / Allan Bloom.
- Author
- Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992
- Publication
- New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E169.1 .B653 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 392 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Saul Bellow -- Students. The clean slate -- Books -- Music -- Relationships -- Nihilism, American style. The German connection -- Two revolutions and two states of nature -- The self -- Creativity -- Culture -- Values -- The Nietzcheanization of the left or vice versa -- Our ignorance -- The university. From Socrates Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede -- The Sixties -- The student and the university.
- ISBN
- 0671479903
- LCCN
- ^^^86024768^//r924
- OCLC
- 14239839
- SCSB-10970515
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library