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- Subject
- General, Commentary & Opinion, Higher
- Series
- A to Z
- Subject Area
- Education, Social Science, Political Science
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Personalized
- No
- Level
- Intermediate
- Features
- 1st Edition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781451683202
- Publication Name
- Closing of the American Mind : How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 11.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" ( The New York Times )--now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind , an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" ( The New York Times ) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom's argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1451683200
ISBN-13
9781451683202
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111939774
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Closing of the American Mind : How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
General, Commentary & Opinion, Higher
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
25
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
La227.3.B584 2012
Reviews
Brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary book., "Brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling.. . . An extraordinary book." --William Kristol, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review An unparalleled reflection on today's intellectual and moral climate....That rarest of documents, a genuinely profound book., "Brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling.. . . An extraordinary book." --William Kristol, The Wall Street Journal, S. Frederick Starr The Washington Post Book World Rich and absorbing....A grand tour of the American mind., The New York Times Remarkable....Hits with the Approximate Force and Effect of Electroshock Therapy., "Brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling.. . . An extraordinary book." -William Kristol, The Wall Street Journal, eoeBrilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling.. . . An extraordinary book.e e"William Kristol, The Wall Street Journal, "Brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling.. . . An extraordinary book." William Kristol, The Wall Street Journal
Table of Content
Contents Foreword by Saul Bellow Preface Introduction: Our Virtue PART ONE. STUDENTS The Clean Slate Boob 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 Serf 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 Index
Copyright Date
2012
Afterword by
Ferguson, Andrew
Dewey Decimal
378.73
Dewey Edition
20
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