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An edition of The Closing of the American Mind (1987)

The Closing of the American Mind

1st Touchstone ed.

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How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. The author says, "More than anything else, this book is to be taken as a report from the front. The reader can judge for himself the gravity of our situation. Every age has its problems, and I do not claim that things were wonderful in the past. I am describing our present situation and do not intend any comparison with the past to be used as grounds for congratulations or blaming ourselves but only for the sake of clarifying what counts for us and what is special in our situation."

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Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
392

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Subjects
Higher Education, Philosophy, Intellectual life, Political aspects of Higher education, Humanistic Education, Enseignement supérieur, Ensino Superior, Vie intellectuelle, Civilisation, Philosophie, Educación superior, Filosofía, Educación humanística, Aspectos políticos, Education, Vida intelectual, Political aspects, Education, united states
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United States, États-Unis
Times
20th century, 1950-, 20e siècle

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The Closing of the American Mind
1988, Simon and Schuster
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The closing of the American mind: how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students
1987, Simon and Schuster
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

Foreword / Saul Bellow
Preface
Introduction : Our virtue
Part one : Students.
The clean slate
Books
Music
Relationships
Part two : 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
Part three : The university.
From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede
The sixties
The student and the university

Edition Notes

"A Touchstone book."

Includes index.

Available at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.

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New York
Other Titles
Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.

Classifications

Library of Congress
E169.1 .B653 1988, LA227.3 .B584 1987, LA227.3.B584 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
392 p. ;
Number of pages
392

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL13572655M
Internet Archive
closingofameric000bloo
ISBN 10
0671657151
LCCN
86024768
OCLC/WorldCat
17820784
Library Thing
16449
Goodreads
75812

Work Description

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. - Back cover.

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