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Title Beyond cheering and bashing : new perspectives on the Closing of the American mind / edited by William K. Buckley and James Seaton.

Publication Info. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1992]
©1992

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 Moore Stacks  A227.3 .B58433 1992    Available  ---
Description 166 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents On Horace Mann, Jay Gatsby and Allan Bloom / Willia, K. Buckley and James Seaton -- The great experiment : where did it go wrong? / Christopher Lasch -- On philosophy and history : "the truth--the good, the bad and the ugly" / John K. Roth -- Two wise men bearing strange gifts : on the educational crisis in America / Frank Caucci -- The good, the bad, and the ugly in Amerika's Akadẽmia / William K. Buckley -- Culture and democracy : strange bedfellows and their offspring / Milton R. Stern -- A feminist reads The closing of the American mind / Susan Bourgeois -- A Bloom amid the Reagan-Bushes / Margaret C. Jones -- Permanent questions, new questions : opening American minds to the nuclear age / Daniel Zins.
The great books vs. America : reassessing The closing of the American mind / Kenneth Alan Hovey -- Socrates-Bloom : an American tale / Bonnie A. Hain -- Mysteries and Jeremiads : narrative elements in The closing of the American mind / John Peacock -- Allan Bloom's Closing : on re-opening the American mind to heteroglossic discourse / Patricia Lorimer Lundberg -- Arbiters of culture / Peter Siedlecki -- In defense of universal norms : reflections on Allan Bloom's critics / Mark W. Roche --Allan Bloom and the limits of reason / William Thickstun -- Allan Bloom and Gerald Graff : on mimesis as freedom / Lorraine Clark. Response / Gerald Graff.
Subject Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992. Closing of the American mind.
Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
Education, Higher.
United States.
Philosophy.
Education, Humanistic -- United States.
Education, Humanistic.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Political aspects.
Added Author Buckley, William K., 1946-
Seaton, James, 1944-
ISBN 0879725486 paperback
0879725478 clothbound