The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls...

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Allan Bloom Andrew Ferguson

The Closing of the American Mind

How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Allan Bloom, Andrew Ferguson, Saul Bellow

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Simon & Schuster
03 April 2012

History; Higher & further education, tertiary education

"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."

By: Allan Bloom
Afterword by: Andrew Ferguson
Foreword by: Saul Bellow
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9781451683202
ISBN 10: 1451683200
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 03 April 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

"""Rich and absorbing. . . . A grand tour of the American mind.-- ""The Washington Post"" ""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"""