The Closing of the American Mind
Subtitle: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Students; title: Part Two: Nihilism, American Style; title: Part Three: The University