Allan Bloom
Born
in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States
September 14, 1930
Died
October 07, 1992
Genre
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The Closing of the American Mind
61 editions
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1987
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Love and Friendship
19 editions
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published
1993
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Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990
14 editions
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published
1990
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Shakespeare's Politics
by
12 editions
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published
1964
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Shakespeare on Love and Friendship
5 editions
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published
2000
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Confronting The Constitution: The Challenge To Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson And The Federalists From Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism, Pragmatism, Existentialism
by
7 editions
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1990
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Statement on Alexander Kojève
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O Declínio da Cultura Ocidental
2 editions
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published
1989
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Response to Fukuyama's *End of History and the Last Man*
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L'ame Desarmee
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1987
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“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
“Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones or watching MTV. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs; he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproduction he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate? A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms; whose feelings are made articulate in hymns to the joys of onanism or the killing of parents; whose ambition is to win fame and wealth in imitating the drag-queen who makes the music. In short, life is made into a nonstop, commercially prepackaged masturbational fantasy.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
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