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LA227.3. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's ...
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Oct 3, 2024 · Allan Bloom (born Sept. 14, 1930, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1992, Chicago, Ill.) was an American philosopher and writer best remembered for his provocative best-seller The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987). He was also known for his ...
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Allan Bloom was born in 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana. At his death in 1992, Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy. [Read More]
A leading student of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom held professorships and other teaching positions at Yale, Cornell, the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, Tel Aviv University, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. [Read More]
Nov 27, 2017 · The quip came in response to controversies surrounding his 1987 best seller The Closing of the American Mind, which defended an idiosyncratic vision of higher education in the United States. Bloom saw the liberal education traditionally offered at exclusive colleges and universities as the fulfillment of democratic ideals, but condemned his ...
Allan Bloom, 1930-1992. he death of Allan Bloom last month at the age of sixty-two deprived us of many things: a valued teacher, friend, and scholar, an extraordinarily effective and prescient critic of American higher education. It also deprived the cultural Left of a prime object of vilification and rage.
Apr 28, 2017 · Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the legendary "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom — a particularly prescient work given the current state of affairs.
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Allan Bloom does not offer an overview of trends in higher education. His book is not a descriptive study; it is a polemic— that is, he takes a very strong position against what he sees as ...
