Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
June 11, 201851m 24s
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Show Notes
On Allan Bloom's 1987 best-selleing polemic. What is the role of the university in our democracy? Bloom thinks that today's students are conformist, relativistic, and nihilistic, and that great books and thinking for thinking's sake are the cure.
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