Bloom, Allan,  1930-1992, <br/><br/>
The closing of the American mind :  how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students / 
 How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students 
Allan Bloom. 
 - 392 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0671479903 9780671479909 0671657151 9780671657154 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>86024768  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>011349152  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education, Higher--Philosophy.--United States<br/>Education, Humanistic--United States.<br/>Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Education.<br/>Educación superior--Filosofía.--Estados Unidos<br/>Educación humanística--Estados Unidos.<br/>Educación superior--Aspectos políticos--Estados Unidos.<br/>Enseignement supérieur--Philosophie.--États-Unis<br/>Civilisation--1950-<br/>Higher education.<br/>Education, Higher--Philosophy.<br/>Education, Higher--Political aspects.<br/>Education, Humanistic.<br/>Intellectual life.<br/>Ensino Superior.<br/>Enseignement supérieur--États-Unis--20e siècle.<br/>Education, Higher--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Intellectual life--20th century.<br/>United States--Intellectual life--20th century.<br/>Estados Unidos--Vida intelectual--Siglo XX.<br/>États-Unis--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.<br/>United States.<br/>États-Unis--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.<br/>United States--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Education, Higher  Philosophy  United States Education, Higher  Political aspects  United States Education, Humanistic  United States United States  Intellectual life  20th century 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LA227.3  / .B584 1987 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>378/.012/0973 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>378(73) 37.014.5(73) 378.4(73 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>000108229