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The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom

What has happened to the way young Americans think and learn, and what should a university education be for?

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Author
Allan Bloom

Why read it

  • You will question whether being nice, as many students are today, is the same as being moral or noble
  • You will see why great texts matter to a person's inner life, and what is lost without them
  • You will learn to join a search for truth that is larger than your own opinion, as a friend among seekers

Who it is for

  • A parent or teacher puzzled by how students think today
  • A university student choosing what to study and why
  • A reader who likes an argument worth pushing back on

Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Our Virtue
  4. PART ONE
  5. THE CLEAN SLATE
  6. BOOKS
  7. MUSIC
  8. RELATIONSHIPS
  9. PART TWO
  10. THE GERMAN CONNECTION
  11. TWO REVOLUTIONS AND TWO STATES OF NATURE
  12. THE SELF
  13. CREATIVITY
  14. CULTURE
  15. VALUES
  16. THE NIETZSCHEANIZATION OF THE LEFT OR VICE VERSA
  17. OUR IGNORANCE
  18. PART THREE
  19. FROM SOCRATES’ APOLOGY TO HEIDEGGER’S REKTORATSREDE
  20. THE SIXTIES
  21. THE STUDENT AND THE UNIVERSITY
  22. Afterword

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