Allan Bloom's Books
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Closing of the American MindThe brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture, featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson.Read More
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Jewish Indianapolis, April 14, 2013
...s all a matter of taste, like art and pornography. One must be “open-minded.” On which note, recall Allan Bloom’s best-selling book The Closing of the American Mind (1987). What closed the open minds of Americans, says Bloom, is the academic...
The Scotsman, April 12, 2013
...natural reactions of a mature, reflective man of letters. Rancour about the "old Saul" and his friends, notably Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind, dominates the last part of the book, together with resentment against Janis...
Herald Scotland, April 7, 2013
...s Gift and, finally, Ravelstein, which appeared in 2000, a memorial to his friend, the philosopher and classicist Allan Bloom. Bloom's life was rambunctious but pacific when compared to Bellow's, which was emotionally, explosively turbulent, as one wife...
New York Review of Books, March 25, 2013
...singling him out as a harbinger of America’s intellectual decline. In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom inveighed against deconstruction for enabling America’s “relativist” turn—for conferring philosophical legitimacy on an...
City Journal, December 7, 2012
...Voice plastered a picture of Paglia alongside mugshots of Roger Kimball, Dinesh DSouza, Robert Brustein, Eugene Genovese, and Allan Bloom. The newspaper accused Paglia of being a counterfeit feminist who was wanted for intellectual fraud. The second-wave...
American Spectator, December 4, 2012
...t say which translation is the best except to admit that I am partial to my own. • Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind . This is another anniversary book, republished for its 25th. It is a brilliant, all-around indictment of American...
McDonough County Voice, December 1, 2012
...While rearranging some books in my office, I ran across my copy of Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” (1987), which was a phenomenal bestseller 25 years ago. It is an indictment of both modern young people, as shallow and confused...
Power Line, January 12, 2013
...happens it displays the severe limitations of economics as a window to the essential questions of political philosophy. Allan Bloom This problem was never more on display than in one of the most extraordinary intellectual clashes I was ever lucky...
Weekly Standard, January 9, 2013
...not an exaggeration to say that hating Republicans is the Last Man's god. (I believe it was Allan Bloom who said that "anti-bourgeois ire is the opiate of the last man..."). So Christie makes sacrifices, as he must, to that hateful god. He invokes that...
Power Line, December 19, 2012
...( ) Salman Rushdie has just published a memoir — Joseph Anton — of his life under the fatwa promulgated against him by Ayatollah Khomeni on account of Rushie’s nove The Satanic Verses . I have taken my bearings on this saga from Daniel...
American Thinker, December 14, 2012
...rights, or hold themselves to standards of character and reasoning higher than that of a mugger? Perhaps, as Allan Bloom suggested with regard to gladiators, witch burnings, and rock music, a civilization's greatest absurdity always seems normal to...
Frontpagemag.com, December 13, 2012
...correlation between the sharp decline in academic standards and the student radicalism he idealizes. As was recognized by Allan Bloom , an appalled witness to the ‘60s campus revolts at Cornell, the decision by university administrators to give in...
Onion AV Club, December 8, 2012
...logic of—if you’re not careful with the dough—the concrete.” 8. From “Restoring the Jewish Cannon” by philosopher Allan Bloom “What is bad is not that the economists say that man can live on latkes or hamentashen alone, but that they...
City Journal, December 7, 2012
...Voice plastered a picture of Paglia alongside mugshots of Roger Kimball, Dinesh DSouza, Robert Brustein, Eugene Genovese, and Allan Bloom. The newspaper accused Paglia of being a counterfeit feminist who was wanted for intellectual fraud. The second-wave...
