The Closing of the American Mind
by Bloom, Allan
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0671657151
- ISBN 13
- 9780671657154
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1988). Softcover. 0671657151 . No signatures. Price sticker on rear cover. ; Paperback reprint. 392, [3], [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 134mm. "In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 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." - from blurb on rear cover. With a Foreword by Saul Bellow. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Our Virtue; Part One - Students : The Clean Slate; Books; Music; Relationships - Self-Centredness, Equality, Race, Sex, Separateness, Divorce, Love, Eros; Part Two - Nihilism, American Style : The German Connection; Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature; The Self; Creativity; Culture; Values; The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa; Our Ignorance; Part Three - The University : From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede; Tocqueville on Democratic Individual Life; The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society; The Philosophic Experience; The Enlightenment Transformation; Swift's Doubts; Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University; The Sixties; The Student and the University - Liberal Education, The Decomposition of the University, The Disciplines, Conclusion; Index. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24472
- Title
- The Closing of the American Mind
- Author
- Bloom, Allan
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671657151
- ISBN 13
- 9780671657154
- Publisher
- Touchstone / Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1988)
- Keywords
- 0671657151
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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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