Título: Allan Bloom
Seção: Career and death
Background: Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 - October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojeve. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago. Bloom championed the idea of Great Books education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind.

Conteúdo: Bloom studied and taught in Paris (1953-55) at the Ecole Normale Superieure, and Germany (1957). Upon returning to the United States in 1955, he taught adult education students at the University of Chicago with his friend Werner J. Dannhauser, author of Nietzsche's View of Socrates. Bloom went on to teach at Yale from 1960 to 1963, at Cornell until 1970, and at the University of Toronto until 1979, when he returned to the University of Chicago. Among Bloom's former students are prominent journalists, government officials and political scientists such as Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kraynak, Pierre Hassner, Clifford Orwin, Janet Ajzenstat, John Ibbitson, and John Milligan-Whyte.  In 1963, as a Professor at Cornell, Allan Bloom served as a faculty member of the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, an organization focused on intellectual development and self-governance. The students received free room and board in the Telluride House on the Cornell University campus and assumed the management of the house themselves. While living at the house, Bloom befriended former U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Bloom's first book was a collection of three essays on Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare's Politics; it included an essay from Harry V. Jaffa. He translated and commented upon Rousseau's "Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theater", bringing it into dialogue with Plato's Republic. In 1968, he published his most significant work of philosophical translation and interpretation, 

user: What was Bloom's first notable role?

assistant: Bloom studied and taught in Paris (1953-55) at the Ecole Normale Superieure, and Germany (1957).

user: Did he enjoy his time in Europe?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What was his first position in the US?

assistant: taught adult education students at the University of Chicago with his friend Werner J. Dannhauser,

user: What year did he teach at U of C

assistant: 1955,

user: How long was his tenure?

assistant: Bloom went on to teach at Yale from 1960 to

user: What year did he leave Yale?

assistant: teach at Yale from 1960 to 1963, at Cornell until 1970,

user: What did he teach?

assistant: Allan Bloom served as a faculty member of the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, an organization focused on intellectual development and self-governance.

user: What did he do after Cornell?

assistant: at Cornell until 1970, and at the University of Toronto until 1979,

user: What did he teach in Toronto?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What was Bloom's last job before death?

assistant: After returning to Chicago, he befriended and taught courses with Saul Bellow.