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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... read more
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- America
- United States
- Germany
- Republic
- Greece
- France
- Europe
- Cornell
- Goethe
- Athens
- Montesquieu
- England
- Soviet Union
- Venice
- Rome
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I used to think that young Americans began whatever education they were to get at the age of eighteen, that their early lives were spiritually empty and that they arrived at the university clean slates unaware of their deeper selves and the world beyond their superficial experience.
Table of Contents edit
Foreword by Saul Bellow
Preface
Introduction: Our Virtue
PART ONE. STUDENT
The Clean Slate
Books
Music
Relationships
Self-Centeredness Equality Race Sex
Separateness Divorce Love Eros
PART TWO. NIHILSM, 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
Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society The Philosophic Experience The Enlightenment Transformation Swift's Doubts Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
The Sixties
The Student and the University
Liberal Education The Decomposition of the University The Disciplines Conclusion
Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books. (authoritative list)
This is book 48 of 102 in National Review - 100 Best Non-fiction Books of the Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Economy of Cities, and followed by Ethnic America : A History.
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- Allan Bloom (Author)
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- Dewey: 973.92
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