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The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom
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ISBN13: 9780671657154 
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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.
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"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
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"Remarkable....hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy." New York Times
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"Rich and absorbing....A grand tour of the American mind." The Washington Post Book World
Synopsis:
Ten stories recount the Devil's exploits, successes and failures, in Hell andin the world above.
About the Author
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).
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TOM723, June 6, 2007 (view all comments by TOM723)
Sounds like a Great Book. Maybe I will take a look at it very soon.
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Billy the Dik, June 6, 2007 (view all comments by Billy the Dik)
This book is pure tripe and only serves to exploit the population's hunger for fake pomposity and need to appear "smart." Bloom's celebration of the "classics" is really just his pathetic fear of knowledge he hasn't memorized. He despises what he fears and he fears what he doesn't understand. His defense of yesterday is his damnation of today and his paranoid little book is a terrible reflexion on the "American Mind."
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Miss Gretchen, June 6, 2007 (view all comments by Miss Gretchen)
Conservatives loved this book when it came out, but there is plenty inside for progressives to ponder. After all, aren't we the ones complaining these days about "a flock of parrots trained to squawk whatever brainless propaganda is fed into their empty vapid heads?" Bloom's arguments for education in the liberal arts are compelling, and a core curriculum need not exclude anyone other than a Dead White Male. An open mind can take certain of Bloom's concepts and rearrange them to fit one's own predilections -- if someone is not a reader of the Christian Bible, then whenever Bloom says "Bible," insert your own religious, spiritual, or secular humanist ideals (unless, of course, Bloom is referring to the Christian Bible as a literary or cultural reference.) As a companion book, one can read Michael Berube's What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780671657154
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster
- Foreword:
- Bellow, Saul
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Education
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- United States - 20th Century
- Subject:
- Education, higher
- Subject:
- Education, humanistic
- Subject:
- Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
- Subject:
- General Social Science
- Copyright:
- c198
- Edition Number:
- 1st Touchstone ed.
- Edition Description:
- B102
- Series Volume:
- v. 1
- Publication Date:
- 19880515
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 8.23x5.30x1.02 in. .75 lbs.
- Age Level:
- 09-12
