Allan Bloom
Allan D. Bloom (September 14, 1930-October 7, 1992) studied under
Leo Strauss at the
University of Chicago. He taught political philosophy at the
University of Toronto and the University of Chicago. He became widely known after publishing
The Closing of the American Mind in 1987. In
Saul Bellow's quasi-biographical novel "Ravelstein", the title character is reputed to have been based on Bloom.
The Closing of the American mind suggests that Higher education is failing, in part because of an uncritical acceptance of value relativism, w
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