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	Allan Bloom
		Bloom believed that the Great Books were the vehicles of the best of 2500 years of reflection on the most permanent and important questions one can face as an individual and as society.
		Allan Bloom was a “psychologist” in the classical sense, thus a perennialist.
		Bloom also referred to an openness to study historical and cultural texts and materials in their original form, and be open to develop one’s own thoughts from them rather than accepting them at first glance with the opinions of so-called experts in the field of their textbooks.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Bloom.html (893 words)

	Allan Bloom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allan David Bloom (born September 14, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana, died October 7, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, public intellectual, neoconservative and academic.
		Allan Bloom was a philosopher and he was primarily concerned with preserving the philosophical way of life for the future generation.
		Allan Bloom should not be confused with the American literary critic Harold Bloom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Bloom (2002 words)

	Paul Hastings: Professional: Allan S. Bloom
		Allan Bloom represents employers and management in all types of employment and labor disputes and workplace litigation, including against claims of discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, and for unpaid compensation and benefits.
		Bloom served as co-trial counsel for Manhattanville College in a representation proceeding before the NLRB in which a labor organization affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers sought to unionize the full-time faculty members of the College.
		Bloom is an active member of the American and New York State Bar Associations, and currently serves as co-Chair of the Subcommittee on Alternative Dispute Resolution within the ABA Section of Litigationâ€™s Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee.
	www.paulhastings.com /professionalDetail.aspx?ProfessionalId=41034 (540 words)

	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.
		In Saul Bellow's quasi-biographical novel "Ravelstein", the title character is reputed to have been based on Bloom.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Allan_Bloom.html (62 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Allan Bloom and America
		Bloom was one of the premier teachers of America during his lifetime, and his gifted students, of whom there were many, may be found today in important positions in the media, in government, and of course in academia.
		Bloom acknowledges that he never felt at home in the American Midwest of his youth, that there was nothing for him in the concerns of his high school classmates (244), nor in the piety of his orthodox grandfather (60).
		Bloom's university is to be explicitly devoted to cultivating the philosophic life, by pointing students away from their own countries and traditions.
	www.claremont.org /writings/890101west.html (5233 words)

	The New York Times revises Allan Bloom - Campus Watch
		The grain of truth is that Allan Bloom "was an eccentric interpreter of Enlightenment thought." The mountain of misrepresentation fills the balance of his essay.
		Allan Bloom wanted students to take an interest in truth, all right, but his book was not a manifesto urging subversion of tradition but a blistering attack on those forces that had undercut tradition in the name of pseudo-openness and intellectual democratization.
		Bloom was horrified at the "nice," "passionless," "spiritually detumescent," "morally unpretentious" students he encountered in the wake of the 1960s assault on civilization -- "an unmitigated disaster," Bloom called it, which he compared, much to the consternation of academics like Sleeper, to the fascist movements of the 1930s.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/2193 (1661 words)

	Allan Bloom Summary
		Allan David Bloom was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 14, 1930, to Allan and Malvina (Glasner) Bloom, both of whom were social workers of Jewish descent.
		Bloom came to believe that the goal of a truly liberal education should be to help students define themselves by those truths.
		For most of his career, Bloom was known in academic circles mainly for his translations of Rousseau and Plato, but the publication of The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 brought him fame and fortune, praise and vilification.
	www.bookrags.com /Allan_Bloom (2806 words)

	ALLAN BLOOM AND AMERICA
		Instead of debunking the founding (Bloom once rightly blamed a history teacher of his for this very thing), Bloom should be celebrating it as a fund of wisdom to be recovered for the sake of the very enterprise he wishes to foster.
		Bloom’s university, on the other hand, is to be explicitly devoted to cultivating the philosophic life, by pointing students away from their own countries and traditions.
		Bloom spends a lot of time with students and professors, and he has a gift for penetrating their facades and seeing what they are really like.
	www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Bloom/review_of__A_Bloom.html (5054 words)

	Amazon.de: Closing of the American Mind: English Books: Allan Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Allan Bloom contends that the university - whose roots are in a tradition based on reason - has been undermined by its very faculty and students, who subscribe to a tradition based on feeling (ie.
		Bloom is as obsessed with sex as the most radical gender feminists -- and in doing so, he presents the left with a target too tempting to miss.
		Bloom stands in the vein of Kierkegaard; his melancholic discussion of the dissipated need for authority and cultural direction places him among the great moral thinkers, who have ardently attempted to place the individual within the context of a community -- while he searches for an eternal teleology and heirarchy.
	www.amazon.de /Closing-American-Mind-Allan-Bloom/dp/0613185110 (2700 words)

	Salon Ivory Tower \| A tale of two Blooms
		Allan and Harold Bloom dared to buck the conformity and cowardice of the academy.
		Bloom had not yet published "The Anxiety of Influence" (1973), which made him the leading literary critic in the world, but he had already achieved fame for his books on English and Irish poetry, which revolutionized Romantic studies.
		Bloom and I shared a respect for Freud, a love of great art, a drive for omnivorous learning, an instinct for epic sweep, a contempt for conformist careerism and dainty institutional etiquette and an unembarrassed openness to strong emotion and intellectual risk-taking.
	archive.salon.com /it/col/pagl/1998/11/18pagl.html (987 words)

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		Bloom claims that, "Young Americans have less and less knowledge of and interest in foreign places." What they seem to be more interested in are the political problems of Third World countries and helping them to modernize.
		Bloom means when he says that, "The radical transformation of the relations between men and women and parents and children was the inevitable consequence of the success of the new politics of consent.
		Bloom suggests that there are two contrary views of nature possible when it comes to relationships and family.
	www.stthom.edu /smith/modern_challenges/bloom.html (962 words)

	Allan Bloom, warts and all Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is a portrait of his close friend Allan Bloom, author of the 1987 best-seller The Closing of the American Mind and darling of the neoconservative movement.
		What has tongues wagging, particularly among old friends and former students of Bloom and Bellow at the University of Chicago, are Ravelstein's frank discussions of Bloom's homosexuality and Bellow's contention that Bloom died of AIDS at age 62 in 1992.
		Bloom was relatively open about his partnership with a former student, Michael Z. Wu_called Nikki in Bellow's book_and Bloom dedicated his 1993 book Love & Friendship to Wu and named him his sole heir.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20000416/ai_n13857904 (812 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shakespeare on Love and Friendship: Books: Allan Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Bloom's view, we live in a love-impoverished age; he asks us to turn once more to Shakespeare because the playwright gives us a rich version of what is permanent in human nature without sharing our contemporary assumptions about erotic love.
		At his death in 1992, Allan Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
		Bloom's notion that Rome's imperial expansion was over by the time Octavius defeated Antony is very peculiar.
	www.amazon.ca /Shakespeare-Love-Friendship-Allan-Bloom/dp/0226060454 (1005 words)

	Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind - Campus Watch
		Far from being a conservative ideologue, Bloom, a University of Chicago professor of political philosophy who died in 1992, was an eccentric interpreter of Enlightenment thought who led an Epicurean, quietly gay life.
		Conservatives who reread Bloom will also discover that the 60's left reminded him of the right-wing hordes his mentor Leo Strauss had encountered in Europe in the 30's: "The fact that in Germany the politics were of the right and in the United States of the left should not mislead us.
		Bloom wanted liberal education to resist both "whatever is most powerful" and the "worship of vulgar success." True openness, he said, "means closedness to all the charms that make us comfortable with the present." He disdained professors who strive to become counselors to the king and forget that "the intellectual, who attempts to influence.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/2181 (888 words)

	Amazon.com: The Closing of the American Mind: Books: Allan Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bloom believed Plato's cave was culture, whether that culture was western or not (after all, it was Plato's description of his own culture that created the idea of the cave).
		Bloom simply wanted to make students think, to make them understand that there are different ideas of what man is and that they must confront these ideas if they wish to lead a meaningful life.
		This contrast is at the heart of Bloom's book: whether humans are truth-seeking creatures who live for the purpose of pleasing God and discovering the good, or whether they are truth-creating creatures who live only for the purpose of satisfying their animal needs and preventing the bad.
	www.amazon.com /Closing-American-Mind-Allan-Bloom/dp/0671657151 (3594 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: A Picture of Allan Bloom
		Perhaps it is because the facts of Bloom's life require a hermeneutic to frame a relatively coherent picture.
		It is the model of Platonic friendship: the younger, with physical beauty (nature's kiss), and the elder, with a developed life of the mind, conjoining in a discourse for their mutual pleasure.
		In the end, if his portrait of Ravelstein is an accurate analogy, Bellow saw Allan Bloom as passionate, sexual, a lover of young (very young) men, guided as the Greeks were by moral aestheticism.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=100949 (950 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Closing of the American Mind: Livres en anglais: Allan Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		de Allan Bloom "I used to think that young Americans began whatever education they were to get at the age of eighteen, that their early lives were spiritually..." (plus)
		Plato said that music was a barbaric art form, and Bloom, translator of Plato's Republic, charges that rock 'n' roll's sole attraction is a "barbaric appeal to sexual desire." This University of Chicago professor claims that racial segregation among today's students is largely due to the fact that "fls have become fls" and stick together.
		Bloom is angry about college studentstolerant of everything, they cannot appreciate the virtues of Lockean democracy and often abandon the great questions about God and man. Meanwhile, the humanities are like "a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries.
	www.amazon.fr /Closing-American-Mind-Allan-Bloom/dp/0613185110 (538 words)

	The Last Remains of Me \| by James Liu » Reading Allan Bloom
		I think Allan Bloom had a little chinaman tethered to his wrist if I’m not mistaken that is indeed an inhuman pleasure.
		Bloom was no different seeking his venial pleasures.
		And yes, that’s precisely Bloom’s problem (and the problem of all philosophers, on pain of not being philosophers).
	jamesliu.coffeespoons.org /?p=903 (555 words)

	Over My Shoulder #7: Allan Bloom's Giants and Dwarfs: Geekery Today 2006-01-20 :: Rad Geek People's Daily
		I also think both Strauss and Bloom continue the traditional snubbing of the more antisocial ancient philosophies, such as epicureanism, in order to buttress a wholly irrational mental alignment of the virtue of the ancient polis and the philosophic life among their readers.
		Bloom is as times both wrong and unscholarly, but there were many both correct and scholarly who lacked his vision.
		And to me Bloom’s treatment of the philosophic life is a truly brilliant meditation, and neither Bloom’s nor Strauss’s brilliance should be forgotten for their flaws.
	radgeek.com /gt/2006/01/20/over_my (5094 words)

	Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, and Mr. Strauss - Morton A. Kaplan
		Ravelstein is based on Allan Bloom, a professor, along with Saul Bellow, in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and, until his death, a close friend of Bellow's.
		Strauss, a mentor to Bloom, was an émigré scholar who became famous when he published a book on Hobbes.
		However, his study of Hobbes was designed to show the weakness of the early modern position, whereas real wisdom was to be found in the writings of the classical Greek philosophers.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2000/august/Sa22037.htm (302 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, and Abe Ravelstein
		Saul Bellow, 84 years old as the century ends, has lately been spending most of his time on a novel frankly based on Allan Bloom, the great teacher and philosopher who in 1987 wrote an astonishingly successful critique of education, The Closing of the American Mind.
		Bellow urged Bloom to write that book, contributed the enthusiastic introduction that helped sell it, and for years sang Bloom's praises wherever he could.
		Remarkably, no reference to Bloom's homosexuality has previously appeared in print--not in the publicity that surrounded his best-seller, or his obituaries, or even his posthumously published book, Love and Friendship.
	www.robertfulford.com /Bellow.html (914 words)

	The Allan Bloom Forum of Yale University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Forum is named after Allan Bloom, who was a professor at Yale, and was best known for authoring The Closing Of The American Mind, the book which launched much of today's debate about the nature of education and the Western canon.
		The Forum is a project of the Conservative Party of Yale University (the Forum, founded in the 1950's, was originally called "The Conservative Forum").
		in attending an event of the Allan Bloom Forum, please contact Gene E. Sussman by electronic mail (gene.sussman@yale.edu).
	www.yale.edu /cp/bloom (181 words)

	The Closing of the American Mind (Chapter 1) by Allan Bloom book review
		Regarding Books, Bloom lashes out against feminism, which he claims is a enemy to the vitality of the classic texts.
		The fact is that the average fl student's achievements do not equal those of the average white student in good universities and everybody knows it." "Those who are good students fear they are equated with those who are not, that their hard-won credentials are not credible.
		Sex: Bloom says that sexual liberation could be the recognition that sexual passion is no longer dangerous in us and that it is safer to give it free course than to risk rebellion.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/philosophy/closing_1.html (1109 words)

	Allan Bloom - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Allan Bloom - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Economists tell us how to make money; psychiatrists give us a place to spend it.
		Search for books about your topic, "Allan Bloom"
	encarta.msn.com /Allan_Bloom.html (96 words)

	allan bloom - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Bloom, Allan, Education, Higher, Higher education of women, Scholars--Attitudes, Universities and colleges--Finance
		Allan Bloom, R I P. Allan Bloom wrote about the University of Chicago his eloquence recalled...recently David Bromwichs Politics by Other Means.
		Allan Bloom remarked somewhere that for an old man, the devotion of every third thought to ones grave would seem to be somehow appropriate...
	www.questia.com /search/allan-bloom- (1532 words)

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