| Description |
12 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Compact disc. |
| Performer |
Read by Christopher Hurt. |
| Summary |
Bloom argues that the social and political crisis of twentieth century 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 Continental 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, and that it is especially closed to the spiritual heritage of the West, which gave rise to the university in the first place. |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Education, Humanistic -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Bellow, Saul, author of foreword.
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Hurt, Christopher, 1959- narrator.
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Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Recorded Books, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781441746139 |
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1441746137 |
| Music No. |
DD5947 Recorded Books |
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