The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students / Allan Bloom.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 392 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0671479903
- 9780671479909
- 0671657151
- 9780671657154
- How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students
- 1900-1999
- Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy
- Education, Humanistic -- United States
- Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
- Education
- Educación superior -- Estados Unidos -- Filosofía
- Educación humanística -- Estados Unidos
- Educación superior -- Aspectos políticos -- Estados Unidos
- Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- Philosophie
- Civilisation -- 1950-
- Higher education
- Education, Higher -- Philosophy
- Education, Higher -- Political aspects
- Education, Humanistic
- Intellectual life
- Ensino Superior
- Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
- Education, Higher -- United States
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Estados Unidos -- Vida intelectual -- Siglo XX
- États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle
- United States
- États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle
- United States -- Intellectual life
- Education, Higher Philosophy United States
- Education, Higher Political aspects United States
- Education, Humanistic United States
- United States Intellectual life 20th century
- 378/.012/0973 20
- LA227.3 .B584 1987
- 000108229
- 378.73
- 81.02
- 81.70
- 81.80
- 81.01
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Saul Bellow -- 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 -- 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.
In this book, the author (a distinguished political philosopher) argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis marked by obvious declines in appreciation of humanities, a drop in the qualitative output of our university systems, and a disquieting disconnect between today's students and the spiritual and cultural traditions of their heritage.
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