The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students

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The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students

Allan Bloom ; foreword by Saul Bellow

Penguin Books, 1988, c1987

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Includes index

"First published in the USA by Simon & Schuster ... , 1987"--T.p. verso

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ISBN 9780140112177

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This critique about the intellectual and moral confusions of our age promotes the view that young people, lacking an understanding of the past and a vision of the future, live in an impoverished present. The author claims that universities no longer provide the knowledge of the great tradition of philosophy and literature that made students aware of the order of nature and of man's place within it and that higher education fails to arouse or to nurture the self-knowledge that has always been the basis for serious, humane learning. The result is a diagnosis of cultural changes which occurred in the last decades in Western civilization, including changes in the language of politics and morals.
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us ISBN 9780140146820

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'WHETHER OR NOT ONE AGREES WITH ITS CONCLUSIONS, THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND IS AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FOR DISCUSSION, NOT A MERE SKIMMING OF THE TRADITION, BUT A COMPLETELY ARTICULATED, HISTORICALLY ACCURATE SUMMARY, A TRUSTWORTHY RESUME OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHER MENTAL LIFE IN THE DEMOCRATIC U.S.A.' - SAUL BELLOW first published 1987 (us): author died 1992.

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