The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140146822 ISBN 13: 9780140146820

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

'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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Review

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.

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.

"The New York Times Book Review" An unparalleled reflection on today's intellectual and moral climate....That rarest of documents, a genuinely profound book.

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

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

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 ""

"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 "

About the Author

Allan Bloom was 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 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. He died in 1992.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140146822
• ISBN 13: 9780140146820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400