The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students - Hardcover

Bloom, Allan David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671479903 ISBN 13: 9780671479909

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1987

Synopsis

A critique of the intellectual and moral confusions of this age argues that the social/political crisis of twentieth-century America is actually an intellectual crisis, and shows how American democracy has hosted ideas of nihilism, despair, and relativism disguised as tolerance

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Product Description:

392 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This Is A Powerful Critique, By A Distinquished Political Philosopher, Of The Intellectual And Moral Confusions Of Our Age.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0671479903
• ISBN 13: 9780671479909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1