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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Allan Bloom; Saul Bellow; Simon and Schuster, Inc., |
| ISBN: | 0671479903 9780671479909 0671657151 9780671657154 |
| OCLC Number: | 14239839 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 392 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Foreword / Saul Bellow -- Introduction: our virtue -- Pt. 1: Students -- The clean slate -- Books -- Music -- Relationships. Self-centeredness ; Equality ; Race ; Sex ; Separateness ; Divorce ; Love ; Eros -- Pt. 2: Nihilism, American style -- The German connection -- Two revolutions and two states of nature -- The self -- Creativity -- Culture -- Values -- The Nietzscheanization of the left or vice versa -- Our ignorance -- Pt. 3: 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. |
| Other Titles: | How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students The closing of the American mind / |
| Responsibility: | Allan Bloom. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 6615 |
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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