Closing of the American Mind : How Higher

The Closing of the American Mind,a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.

Allan Bloom is Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. He has taught at Yale, University of Paris, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and Cornell, where he was the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award in 1967. His other books are Plato's Republic (translator and editor), Politics and the Arts: Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert (translator and editor), Rousseau's Emile (translator and editor), and Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa). He lives in Chicago.

Contents

Foreword by Saul Bellow
Preface
Introduction: Our Virtue

PART ONE. STUDENTS

The Clean Slate
Boob
Music
Relationships

Self-Centeredness
Equality
Race
Sex
Separateness
Divorce
Love
Eros

PART TWO. NIHILISM, AMERICAN STYLE

The German Connection
Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature
The Serf
Creativity
Culture
Values
The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Our Ignorance

PART THREE. THE UNIVERSITY

From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede

Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life
The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society
The Philosophic Experience
The Enlightenment Transformation
Swift's Doubts
Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University

The Sixties
The Student and the University

Liberal Education
The Decomposition of the University
The Disciplines
Conclusion

Index

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Closing of the American Mind : How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

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