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The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracty and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
Allan Bloom

The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracty and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

How Higher Education has Failed Democracty and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Simon & Schuster (Jun 01, 1987)
9780671479909
| Hardcover
392 pages | 157 x 249 mm | English
$ 14.95 | Value: $ 14.95
Dewey 973.92 BLO
LC Classification E169.1 .B653 1987
LC Control No. 86024768

Genre

  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • Education, Higher

Plot

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