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.
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- Year
- 2021
- Type
- book
- Pages
- 9-18
- Citations
- 1607
- Access
- Closed
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Allan Bloom
(2021).
The Closing of the American Mind.
Campus Wars
, 9-18.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429038556-3
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- DOI
- 10.4324/9780429038556-3