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Closing of the American Mind
Closing of the American Mind | Allan Bloom
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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 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.
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GingerAntics
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The fact people are okay with, even happy with, a time widely and opening known as “post truth” is troubling… and shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
#allanbloom #theclosingoftheamericanmind #inalienablerights #americansociety #truth #relativetruth #posttruth #whatistruth #ourrightsarenomore

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GingerAntics
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Somehow music expression is humanising… so long as it‘s not Mick Jagger. Someone make that make sense? How closed minded of him. This dude needs to read Alfie Kohn and redo the assignment.
#allanbloom #theclosingoftheamericanmind #music #selfexpression #humanity

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Bailedbailed

Single minded scapegoating and blaming of rock music in the 80s for the demoralization of America.

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GoneFishing

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.

danielbrighton I read this book 15 years ago and the phrase "prepubescent masturbational fantasy," in reference to rock music, still makes me chuckle. 8y
GoneFishing @danielbrighton ...and how about this one "I discovered students who boasted of having no heroes secretly had a passion to be like Mick Jagger" 8y
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