The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students - Paperback
by Allan Bloom
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Availability:In StockContributor:Allan Bloom, Andrew Ferguson (Afterword by), Saul Bellow (Foreword by)Publish date:2012-04-03Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781451683202ISBN-10:1451683200UPC:9781451683202Book Category:EducationBook Subcategory:SchoolsBook Topic:LevelsSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC06EGN4WE
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (The New York Times)--now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781451683202ISBN-10:1451683200UPC:9781451683202Book Category:EducationBook Subcategory:SchoolsBook Topic:LevelsSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC06EGN4WE
Allan Bloom was 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 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. He died in 1992.
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Allan Bloom, Andrew Ferguson (Afterword by), Saul Bellow (Foreword by)
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