The Closing of the American Mind

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392 pages

English language

Published May 23, 1988 by Simon and Schuster.

ISBN:
978-0-671-65715-4
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OCLC Number:
17820784

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How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. The author says, "More than anything else, this book is to be taken as a report from the front. The reader can judge for himself the gravity of our situation. Every age has its problems, and I do not claim that things were wonderful in the past. I am describing our present situation and do not intend any comparison with the past to be used as grounds for congratulations or blaming ourselves but only for the sake of clarifying what counts for us and what is special in our situation."

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This is one of my favorite books from college. It was the primary text for a 1-month intensive class during May Term...perfect backbone for a class that was about 3 hours long each day. Good discussions and, looking back on it, a formative appreciation for classics versus deconstructionism.

This book included one of the earliest "100 things before you die"-type lists of pillars of western culture and thought. A very good challenge for a young lady on her way to grad school.

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Subjects

  • Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy
  • Education, Humanistic -- United States
  • Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
  • United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century