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Published by Simon & Schuster, 2012
ISBN 10: 1451683200ISBN 13: 9781451683202
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Used: Good.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0671479903ISBN 13: 9780671479909
Seller: Sessions Book Sales, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.
Book
Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8th Printing. 392 pages. Light soiling along page edges. ".From the ulniversities' lack of purpose to their students' lack of learning, from the jargon of liberation to the supplanting of reason by 'creativity', Bloom shows how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized Continental ideas of nihilism and despair, of relativism disguised as tolerance.What we see today, according to Bloom, is young people who, lacking an understanding of the past and a vision of the future, live in an impoverished present. And our universities, entrusted with their education, 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. Higher education fails to arouse or to nurture the self-knowledge that has always been the basis for serious, humane learning.". Failures of Higher Education.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2012
ISBN 10: 1451683200ISBN 13: 9781451683202
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2012
ISBN 10: 1451683200ISBN 13: 9781451683202
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1987
ISBN 10: 0671479903ISBN 13: 9780671479909
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Simon Schuster Trade, 1987
ISBN 10: 0671479903ISBN 13: 9780671479909
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition, early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard A. Ware, One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully, Allan Bloom September, 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation, which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. â The Closing of the American Mind is 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 bookâ (William Kristol The Wall Street Journal). Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923.