41. The Closing Of The American Mind By Allan Bloom, A Review Click to return to ARJ Page Click to Read next Review A READER S JOURNAL The Closing of the American Mind by allan bloom Published by Simon Schuster in 1987 http://www.doyletics.com/arj/tcamrvw.htm

A READER'S JOURNAL The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom "); // End > Search the Web   This book contains a comprehensive exposition of Allan Bloom's views on education and expands on the view he expresses in his long introduction to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile or On Education . One need only read "Emile" to discover the truth of Bloom's statement that a reading of original texts allows one to form a vital understanding of issues that a reading of shallow rehashes of such texts does not. Bloom discusses in this book two types of Openness, how he proposes to re-invigorate college curriculum, and how his suggestion to use original texts [Great Books] is vilified by the Three great parts of the University today, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. A paradoxical aspect of Bloom's book is that he deals with two forms of openness and goes on to show how what is called openness in the first form actually amounts to a "closing of the mind". Here are two kinds of openness and the effects that Bloom says each has on students: I. Openness of indifference

42. The Claremont Institute: Allan Bloom And America allan bloom and America. A Review of The Closing of the American Mind, by allan bloom. By Thomas G. West Posted June 1, 2000. allan http://www.claremont.org/writings/890101west.html?FORMAT=print

43. Independent Gay Forum: Allan Bloom's Last Testament allan bloom, subject of a new novel by Saul Bellow, stood head and shoulders above most critics of modern education and contemporary culture. http://www.indegayforum.org/authors/varnell/varnell26.html

R E L A T E D T O P I C S Books and the Arts Culture and Identity T H E A U T H O R Paul Varnell Allan Bloom's Last Testament By Paul Varnell Originally appeared May 17, 2000, in the Chicago Free Press. Allan Bloom, subject of a new novel by Saul Bellow, stood head and shoulders above most critics of modern education and contemporary culture. But many of the conservatives who lionized him did not know, or did not want to know, or did not want it known that they were admiring a gay man. SAUL BELLOW is one of America's most distinguished novelists. Whenever he publishes a new work it is a literary event. But his most recent novel "Ravelstein," based on Bellow's long friendship with University of Chicago political philosopher Allan Bloom, is something of a political/cultural event as well because it reveals to the general public that Bloom was gay and, apparently, died of AIDS. Bloom himself became a cultural phenomenon back in 1987 when he published his famous polemic "The Closing of the American Mind," a scathing criticism of modern American university education for its shallowness and triviality.

44. Independent Gay Forum: Andrew Sullivan families and communities. Longing Remembering allan bloom. Originally published in The New Republic, April 17, 2000. Saul Bellow s http://www.indegayforum.org/authors/sullivan/

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45. Robert Fulford's Column About Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, And Abe Ravelstein Saul Bellow, allan bloom, and Abe Ravelstein by Robert Fulford. (Globe and Mail, November 2, 1999) Saul Bellow, 84 years old as the http://www.robertfulford.com/Bellow.html

Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, and Abe Ravelstein by Robert Fulford Globe and Mail , November 2, 1999) Saul Bellow, 84 years old as the century ends, has lately been spending most of his time on a novel frankly based on Allan Bloom, the great teacher and philosopher who in 1987 wrote an astonishingly successful critique of education, The Closing of the American Mind . Bellow urged Bloom to write that book, contributed the enthusiastic introduction that helped sell it, and for years sang Bloom's praises wherever he could. They were close friends until Bloom's death in 1992. Now Bellow is erecting a literary monument to his friend, titled Ravelstein . The opening section, also called Ravelstein, which ran in the Nov. 1 issue of the New Yorker , turns out to be prime Bellow: dense, funny, surprising, crammed with the powerful sense of life that marks all of his best writing. If the novel (due in April) is as good as the excerpt, it can only add to Bellow's already majestic reputation. Bloom's admirers, however, will not be unanimously grateful. The people who studied with him at Cornell, Toronto, and Chicago speak of him with awe as a great shaping force in their lives. He seems to have humbled even Bellow, not an easy chore, but Bellow obviously believes that greatness deserves frankness, whatever Bloom's other friends think. So he has made Bloom's intimate life part of the story. Remarkably, no reference to Bloom's homosexuality has previously appeared in printnot in the publicity that surrounded his best-seller, or his obituaries, or even his posthumously published book

46. Allan Bloom Quotes And Quotations - BrainyQuote allan bloom Quotes, allan bloom Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/allan_bloom.html

BrainyDictionary BrainyEncyclopedia BrainyGeography BrainyHistory BrainyQuote BrainyZip Quote Home Quote Topics Author Type ... Quote Trivia Search Quotes A B C D ... Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site - it's Easy! Allan Bloom Quotes As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. Allan Bloom Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. Allan Bloom Education is the movement from darkness to light. Allan Bloom Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Allan Bloom Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. Allan Bloom Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. Allan Bloom Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

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52. Allan Bloom Quotes - ThinkExist.com Quotations allan bloom Quotes. 15 Quotations of 13. 1. What a people bows before tell us what it is . Author allan bloom Contributor Not Updated. http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/allan_bloom/

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Allan Bloom Quotations We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? The real community of man . . . is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers. Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise . . . specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendencythe belief that the here and now is all there is.

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55. Ravelstein - Saul Bellow The character of Abe Ravelstein is based on Bellow’s late friend and colleague, allan bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind, the 1987 bestseller http://www.culturevulture.net/Books/Ravelstein.htm

home dance destinations film ... archives Ravelstein Saul Bellow Ravelstein (2000), Saul Bellow other books by Saul Bellow Ravelstein The Closing of the American Mind Some have gone as far as to suggest that Ravelstein is a sort of jealous revenge enacted against Bloom, who wrote The Closing of the American Mind Oprah . He was vilified by left-wing critics to such a degree that potential detractors were just as anxious to read his book as were enthusiastic supporters. Not even Bellow’s 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature could equal the attention that was lavished on Bloom and his enormously successful jeremiad, which had the throat-clenching subtitle of "How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students." Let the pundits have their field day with Ravelstein . Let them again dredge up the old charges that Bellow lacks the skills of a first-rate novelist, that he writes chit-chatty essays in the guise of fiction, that his characters are crudely cribbed from friends and family members and ex-wives, and that his own outsized ego is the star of the show. When the bickering dies down and the smoke of recrimination clears, Ravelstein should emerge as the heartfelt masterpiece it assuredly is. Regardless of who Abe Ravelstein is modeled after, he is a fully realized character that lives on the page with the élan of a modern-day Dickens eccentric. As with

56. Links To Literature: Allan Bloom Links to Literature allan bloom. The Claremont Institute allan bloom and America. Review of “The Closing of the American Mind” by Thomas G. West. http://www.linkstoliterature.com/blooma.htm

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57. Book Of The Week (1/5/2002): Allan Bloom: The Closing Of The American Mind Book of the Week (1/5/2002). allan bloom The Closing of the American Mind. evisiting this book after more than a decade was an odd http://www.thegline.com/book-of-the-week/2002/01-05-2002.htm

Gline's third album "Freedumb" is out NOW! Support this site! Windows 2000 top ... Doofus: The Webcomic (NEW!) Book of the Week: (1/5/2002) Allan Bloom: The Closing of the American Mind evisiting this book after more than a decade was an odd experience, akin to re-reading one's diary and wondering what kind of person you had been to write such things. I was introduced to Closing of the American Mind in English class, one where I was pitted against the rest of the class as the sole voice of reason (me, the voice of reason; you're all in trouble now!) I loved it: I must've felt like Bloom did when he penned the book, being the sole Apollo guarding the temple against the centaurs crashing in. Thinking back on such feelings now, I understand all too well how it was possible to take the book far more seriously than it deserved to be. Mr. Bloom had written a book that was full of both brilliance and chicanery, and the most distressing thing was how it oscillated wildly between them sometimes in the same sentences. At the time, I was 18 and far more easily persuaded by what sounded like a good argument than I am now at 30.

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The Allan Bloom Forum , a student organization at Yale University, holds that ideas have consequences, and in this spirit, seeks to promote the public exploration of the ideas which have shaped American and Western culture. The Forum is named after Allan Bloom, who was a professor at Yale, and was best known for authoring The Closing Of The American Mind, the book which launched much of today's debate about the nature of education and the Western canon. The Forum invites distinguished individuals from academia, media, and related institutions to speak on cultural, historical, philosophical, and political subjects of general interest. Past topics have ranged from "The Institutionalization Of The Counter-Culture" to "The Crisis Of Conservatism In The Post-Cold War Era" to "The Uses Of The Past." Upcoming guests include Mary Lefkowitz, professor of Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and author of Not Out of Africa and Black Athena Revisited; and Edwin R. Meese III '53, former attorney general of the United States. Past guests include Roger Scruton, Editor of the

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