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Closing of the American Mind How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Paperback • 2012 • English

Closing of the American Mind How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

By Allan Bloom

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The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only b...Show more

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9781451683202

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Closing of the American Mind How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Format

Paperback

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