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A discourse on late 20th century American students' mind and soul, and the damage done by the elite universities' turn from the eternal verities as outlined by Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, Shakespeare and Rousseau.
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Vie intellectuelle, Culture, Education, Philosophy, Education, united statesPeople
Aristotle, René Descartes (1596-1650), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Hegal, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Locke, Machiavelli, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Plato, Socrates, Tocqueville, WeberPlaces
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Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
2012, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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1451683200 9781451683202
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The Closing of the American Mind
Nov 20, 2010, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio
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1441746145 9781441746146
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The Closing of the American Mind
January 1993, Blackstone Audiobooks
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in English
0786103868 9780786103867
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Table of Contents
Forward by Saul Bellow
Page 11
Preface
Page 19
Introduction: Our Virtue
Page 25
Part One.
Students
The Clean Slate
Page 47
Books
Page 62
Music
Page 68
Relationships
Page 82
Self-Centeredness
Page 82
Equality
Page 88
Race
Page 91
Sex
Page 97
Separateness
Page 109
Divorce
Page 119
Love
Page 122
Eros
Page 132
Part Two.
Nihilism, American Style
The German Connection
Page 141
Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature
Page 157
The Self
Page 173
Creativity
Page 180
Values
Page 194
The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Page 217
Our Ignorance
Page 227
Part Three.
The University
From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede 243
Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life
Page 246
The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society
Page 256
The Philosophic Experience
Page 268
The Enlghtenment Transformation
Page 284
Swift's Doubts
Page 293
Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
Page 298
The Sixties
Page 313
The Students and the University
Page 336
Liberal Education
Page 336
The Decomposition of the University
Page 347
The Disciplines
Page 356
Conclusion
Page 380
Index
Page 383
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