Closing of the American Mind
How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
Allan Bloom
This book is a critique of American culture that delves into a larger intellectual crisis. The social and political crises in America are a result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by university elites, according to the author. This bestselling book hits with the approximate force of electroshock therapy and has become even more urgent today. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson, explaining why the book caused such a furor at publication, and why our culture still resists its truths.
Publish Date
1988-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
1988-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1987
Goodreads Rating
3.75
ISBN
9781451683202
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2022-11-03T06:28:53.000Z
Still one of the most interesting books I read at university. Recomended to those that want to open their minds.
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students (Bloom, 1987) – source