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

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Author(s): Allan Bloom / Saul Bellow
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 1988

Language: English
Pages: 392

Title Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Our Virtue
PART ONE STUDENTS
THE CLEAN SLATE
BOOKS
MUSIC
RELATIONSHIPS
PART TWO NIHILISM, AMERICAN STYLE
THE GERMAN CONNECTION
TWO REVOLUTIONS AND TWO STATES OF NATURE
THE SELF
CREATIVITY
CULTURE
VALUES
NIETZSCHEANIZATION OF THE LEFT OR VICE VERSA
OUR IGNORANCE
PART THREE - THE UNIVERSITY
FROM SOCRATES' APOLOGY TO HEIDEGGER'S REKTORATSREDE
THE SIXTIES
THE STUDENT AND THE UNIVERSITY
Index of Proper Names
ABOUT THE AUTHOR