The Closing of the American Mind
By: Allan Bloom ; foreword by Saul Bellow.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy; Education, Humanistic -- United States; Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Other titles: Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Description: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. The author says, "More than anything else, this book is to be taken as a report from the front. The reader can judge for himself the gravity of our situation. Every age has its problems, and I do not claim that things were wonderful in the past. I am describing our present situation and do not intend any comparison with the past to be used as grounds for congratulations or blaming ourselves but only for the sake of clarifying what counts for us and what is special in our situation."
Notes: "A Touchstone book."

Includes index.

Available at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Saul Bellow; title: Preface; title: Introduction : Our virtue; title: Part one : Students.; title: The clean slate; title: Books; title: Music; title: Relationships; title: Part two : Nihilism, American style.; title: The German connection; title: Two revolutions and two states of nature; title: The self; title: Creativity; title: Culture; title: Values; title: The Nietzscheanization of the left or vice versa; title: Our ignorance; title: Part three : The university.; title: From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede; title: The sixties; title: The student and the university