The Closing of the American Mind
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0671479903
ISBN 13
9780671479909
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
392
Subject
Education, Higher--United States--Philosophy. Education, Humanistic--United States. Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States. United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
Abstract
"The Closing of the American Mind, " a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Number of Copies
1
