An edition of The Closing of the American Mind
(1987)
The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom
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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
in English
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
Audio cassette
in English
0786103868 9780786103867
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Forward by Saul Bellow
Preface
Introduction: Our Virtue
Part One. Students
The Clean Slate
Books
Music
Relationships
Self-Centeredness
Equality
Race
Sex
Separateness
Divorce
Love
Eros
Part Two. Nihilism, American Style
The German Connection
Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature
The Self
Creativity
Values
The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Our Ignorance
Part Three. The University
From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede 243
Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life
The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society
The Philosophic Experience
The Enlghtenment Transformation
Swift's Doubts
Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
The Sixties
The Students and the University
Liberal Education
The Decomposition of the University
The Disciplines
Conclusion
Index
Edition Notes
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