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Bloom, Allan David
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Bloom, Allan David (1936–92) political scientist, author; born in Indianapolis, Ind. Educated at the University of Chicago, he joined the Chicago liberal arts faculty in 1955, moved on to Cornell and the University of Toronto (1963–79), and returned to Chicago in 1979 to teach political philosophy. He remained an obscure translator of Plato until the publication of his Closing of the American Mind (1987), a neoconservative polemic against what he perceived as the politicization of academia and the decline of liberal education in the Western tradition.
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Once conservatives like Allan Bloom planted their flag in the Western canon, it became part of the right's culture war agenda--ironic, given that Hutchins spent the last decades of his life arguing for nuclear disarmament and One World Government.
Admired, not read: marketing "Great Books" to the masses may have ... by Carey, Kevin / Washington Monthly
Equally important, the view that it was necessary, or so the neoconservatives argue, to bomb the Germans and Japanese back into the Stone Age to give them what Allan Bloom approvingly calls "an educational experience" makes one wonder why mass destruction should be required to teach people what they should want.
Rogue notions: democracy is still a revolutionary idea--that's the ... by Gottfried, Paul / The American Conservative
who spent a good portion of his time at Cornell University in the 1960s arguing with Allan Bloom.
A neocon by any other name by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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