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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"Brilliant....No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state....No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling....An extraordinary book." Wall Street Journal Review:"Remarkable....hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy." New York Times Review:"Rich and absorbing....A grand tour of the American mind." The Washington Post Book World Synopsis:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Blooms argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. About the AuthorAllan 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). Table of ContentsContents 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 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 4 comments:  
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