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. |
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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.
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Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Education, Higher. |
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United States. |
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Philosophy. |
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Education, Humanistic -- United States.
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Education, Humanistic. |
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects. |
Added Author |
Buckley, William K., 1946-
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Seaton, James, 1944-
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ISBN |
0879725486 paperback |
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0879725478 clothbound |
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