The closing of the American mind :how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students /Allan Bloom.

Book

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

The closing of the American mind :how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students /Allan Bloom.

Description

Foreword by Saul Bellow -- Preface -- Introduction: our virtue -- Part one students -- Part two nihilism, American style -- Part three the university -- Index. 392 p. ;25 cm.

Book Details

Author

Bloom, Allan

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

circa 1987

Publication Subjects

Education, Higher--United States--Philosophy. Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States. Education, Humanistic--United States.

Call No.

E169.1 .B653 1987

ISBN

0671479903, 0671657151 (pbk)

LCCN

8624768