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02421aim a22003975a 4500 001 2257BD54A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 130915s2011 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 1483063704 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781483063706 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT10078334 040 $a Midwest $d SILO 100 1 $a Bloom, Allan, $d 1930-1992. 245 14 $a The closing of the American mind $h [electronic resource] / $c Allan Bloom. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [United States] : $b Blackstone Audio, Inc. : $c 2011. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 39 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 $a Read by Christopher Hurt. 520 $a More than just a huge #1 best seller, this is one of the great and vitally important books of our time. Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago and a noted translator of Plato and Rousseau, argues that the social and political crisis of modern America is really an intellectual crisis. From the universities' lack of purpose to their students' lack of learning, from the jargon of liberation to the supplanting of reason by "creativity," Bloom shows how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized ideas of nihilism and despair, of relativism disguised as tolerance. Bloom demonstrates that the collective mind of the American university is closed to the principles of the Western tradition, in particular its spiritual heritage, which gave rise to the university in the first place. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z United States $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Education, Humanistic $z United States. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $x Political aspects $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 700 1 $a Hurt, Christopher, $d 1959- $4 nrt 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10078334 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/bsa_9781441798312_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20161103011656.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2257BD54A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search