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Author Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992, author.
Title 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 ; afterword by Andrew Ferguson.
Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.



Descript 1 online resource (402 pages)
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Note Includes index.
Contents Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Our Virtue -- Part One: Students -- The Clean Slate -- Books -- Music -- Relationships -- Part Two: Nihilism Americanstyle -- The German Connection -- Two Revolutions and Twostates of Nature -- The Self -- Creativity -- Culture -- Values -- The Nietzsgheanization of the Left or Vice Versa -- Our Ignorance -- Part Three: The University -- From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede -- The Sixties -- The Student and the University -- Afterword -- Index of Proper Names -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.
Note 4 concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781439126264 (electronic bk.)
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Author Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992, author.
Subject Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Alt author Bellow, Saul, writer of foreword.
Ferguson, Andrew, 1956- writer of afterword.
Descript 1 online resource (402 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Note Includes index.
Contents Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Our Virtue -- Part One: Students -- The Clean Slate -- Books -- Music -- Relationships -- Part Two: Nihilism Americanstyle -- The German Connection -- Two Revolutions and Twostates of Nature -- The Self -- Creativity -- Culture -- Values -- The Nietzsgheanization of the Left or Vice Versa -- Our Ignorance -- Part Three: The University -- From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede -- The Sixties -- The Student and the University -- Afterword -- Index of Proper Names -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.
Note 4 concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781439126264 (electronic bk.)
Author Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992, author.
Subject Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Alt author Bellow, Saul, writer of foreword.
Ferguson, Andrew, 1956- writer of afterword.

Subject Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Descript 1 online resource (402 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Note Includes index.
Contents Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Our Virtue -- Part One: Students -- The Clean Slate -- Books -- Music -- Relationships -- Part Two: Nihilism Americanstyle -- The German Connection -- Two Revolutions and Twostates of Nature -- The Self -- Creativity -- Culture -- Values -- The Nietzsgheanization of the Left or Vice Versa -- Our Ignorance -- Part Three: The University -- From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede -- The Sixties -- The Student and the University -- Afterword -- Index of Proper Names -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.
Note 4 concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Bellow, Saul, writer of foreword.
Ferguson, Andrew, 1956- writer of afterword.
ISBN 9781439126264 (electronic bk.)

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