The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students - Paperback

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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Book Overview

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 with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites.

Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom's argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
ISBN9781451683202
Author Allan Bloom
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students - Paperback

The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students - Paperback

By Allan Bloom

About Allan Bloom

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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