The Closing of the American Mind

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　　The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essent... (展开全部) 　　Publisher Comments:
　　The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
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　　The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
　　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　　

　　Allan Bloom is Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. He has taught at Yale, University of Paris, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and Cornell, where he was the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award in 1967. His other books are Plato's Republic (translator and editor), Politics and the Arts: Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert (translator and editor), Rousseau's Emile (translator and editor), and Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa). He lives in Chicago.

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