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	Olin Center, Olin Conference. The Closing of the American Mind.
		JOHN M. The Closing of the American Mind Revisited.
		Even today, The Closing of the American Mind is one of the central documents in continuing debates regarding the state of American universities, and indeed regarding the qualities of "the American mind" more generally.
		Although The Closing of the American Mind helps to frame the questions for this conference, the conference is not meant to celebrate this book or even to take the book itself as the principal object of inquiry.
	olincenter.uchicago.edu /closemind.html (588 words)

	Allan Bloom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bloom's Closing of the American Mind is a critique of the contemporary university and how Bloom sees it as failing its students.
		"Closing of the American Mind" draws analogies between the United States and the Weimar Republic.
		It could be argued, for example, that his dismissal of the value of the MBA degree is completely out of sync with current American right of center thinking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Bloom (1854 words)

	IIE \| 02-13-2001, The Closing of the American Mind: A Progress Report
		It is ironic that the isolation of the American student is occurring at a time when education is on the verge of becoming a global commodity.
		American and European universities enroll more than half of all students but two thirds of the world's college-age population lives elsewhere.
		Perhaps more than anything else they hold the key to whether or not the generation of Americans we are now educating will prosper in an age when the most critical success factor for countries as well as companies are people whose minds are open to the world.
	www.iie.org /Content/NavigationMenu/Pressroom/PublicationsPR/SpeechesPR/02-13-2001,_The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind__A_Progress_Report.htm (1527 words)

	Stoic Philosophy of Mind [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Instead they argued that the mind (or soul) must be something corporeal and something that obeys the laws of physics.
		The Stoics held that the soul is nourished from the exhalations from the passive elements.
		Also closely associated with the doctrine of the primary impulse is the Stoic doctrine of preconception [prolepsis].
	www.iep.utm.edu /s/stoicmind.htm (7003 words)

	The Closing of the American Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is ironic that the isolation of the American student is occurring at a time when education is on the verge of becoming a global commodity.
		American and European universities enroll more than half of all students but two thirds of the world’s college-age population lives elsewhere.
		Perhaps more than anything else they hold the key to whether or not the generation of Americans we are now educating will prosper in an age when the most critical success factor for countries as well as companies are people whose minds are open to the world.
	www.votd.com /good.htm (1510 words)

	The Groves of Ignorance
		In ''The Closing of the American Mind,'' Mr.
		About changes in the American family, for example, he notes that he is ''not arguing here that the old family arrangements were good or that we should or could go back to them.
		Indeed, it is difficult not to conclude that ''The Closing of the American Mind'' is that rarest of documents, a genuinely profound book, born of a long and patient meditation on questions that may be said to determine who we are, both as individuals and as a society.
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	Bloom
		One can easily conclude that there is in the abundance of Closing, which is much more biographical and sociological than philosophical, hardly a statement about any of the great authors or their books that can be confidently relied upon.
		There was a golden age in American higher education when Allan Bloom, as a fifteen-year-old, first came to the University of Chicago -- but that was principally due to the presence on campuses of large numbers of older men who had served several years in a proper war and who were serious about an education.
		Be that as it may, American students in the best universities may still be better, in that they are more open to radical intellectual challenge, than their European counterparts.
	www.ditext.com /anastaplo/bloom.html (4901 words)

	Straussian.net Discussions: Jaffa's critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bloom purports to write about "the American mind." But he is perfectly oblivious of the presence of this expression in one of the most famous documents of American history.
		Bloom's own account of the success of American Lockeanism is testimony to the proposition that this is precisely the kind of regime that the God of the Bible, who cares for the poor, the weak, and the oppressed would favor.
		He openly declared in "Closing of the American Mind" that "None of the sexual possibilites actualized by [today's students] was unknown to me".
	www2.bc.edu /~wilsonop/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=25&post=192 (14763 words)

	THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND by Allan Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		American constitutional law, he writes, seems to be "pathologically lacking in immune defenses" against "the intellectual fevers of the general society." Bork's position is even more radical than Bloom's: Bork believes that there is no theory at all inherent in our political institutions.
		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).
		The liveliest and most accurate parts of The Closing of the American Mind are the beginning and end, those parts that deal directly with university life in modern America.
	www.curezone.com /books/best/book.asp?ID=573 (5305 words)

	Amazon.com: The Closing of the American Mind: Books: Allan David Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
		When The Closing of The American Mind was published in 1987, it instantly ignited a firestorm of praise and condemnation.
		In other words, Americans are incapable of true self-examination and self-understanding because they are ignorant of ancient philosophy, which poses the only alternative to the modern concept of man. What Bloom does with The Closing of The American Mind is expose the great Oz by asking him life's deepest questions.
	www.amazon.com /Closing-American-Allan-David-Bloom/dp/0671479903 (3503 words)

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		Mindful of the interest of this issue of electronic book review in the status of Eastern European postmodern fiction, I also compare the metafictional sensibilities of Dictionary of the Khazars with those of narratives which have made it possible, for critics like Linda Hutcheon or Brian McHale, to speak of a postmodern poetics.
		Since the paratext is the primary concern here, one should note that it is not beyond the bounds of plausibility to construe the balding man on the cover(s) of the Penguin translation as an Adamic figure, nor to see, in his closed eyes, the difficulty of attaining to the "all-seeing" existence invoked in the passage.
		And if he does not touch it, let it be on days when he feels that his mind and sense of caution probe deeper than usual, and let him read it the way he catches 'leap-fever,' an illness that skips over every other day and strikes only on feminine days of the week.
	www.altx.com /ebr/ebr8/8callus.htm (5011 words)

	An open letter to Allan Bloom - author of 'The Closing of the American Mind' - Campus 1987 National Review - Find ...
		Yes, The Closing of the American Mind is about the corrosive effect of moral and philosophical relativism on our culture.
		Reading The Closing of the American Mind is a little like eavesdropping on your parents while they are talking about you.
		It is of the first generation of elite Americans who have grown up without what the sociologists call the "mediating institutions' --the first generation bereft of the multi-generational family, the first to be raised almost entirely without religious instruction, the first to be more the children of Freud than the children of God.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v34/ai_5236390 (741 words)

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		LITERACY, EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ALLAN BLOOM'S THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND The publication of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American MindThe Closing of the American Mind was published by Simon and Schuster in 1987.
		Of course, our reading of the Republic is not all of a piece: each person in the class brings a distinct body of knowledge and experience to bear on their reading of the text, and each person emerges at the end of the year with a unique conception of what the book means to them.
		A text that is 'close to home', related to a way of life with which we are familiar or to a set of ideas that are important to us, can often inspire more searching questions of the soul than a book that seems distant or remote from us.
	www.aare.edu.au /92pap/robep92060.txt (7621 words)

	Allan Bloom at AllExperts
		Bloom's Closing of the American Mind is a critique of the contemporary university and how Bloom sees it as failing its students.
		"Closing of the American Mind" draws analogies between the United States and the Weimar Republic.
		Allan Bloom should not be confused with the American literary critic Harold Bloom.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/allan_bloom.htm (2036 words)

	Hudson Institute > American Outlook > American Outlook Article Detail
		Americans love to be attacked as narrow-minded and idiotic.
		Arriving at the university, the best of them found their slates being written upon by male professors who communed with the distant and the deep and were not afraid, as Plato insists his Guardians must not cavil, at treating human material as blank slates.
		But by the time we get to Bloomâs fierce denunciation of American culture, this charm is largely gone, replaced by a kind of dementia characteristic of beings immersed in various âgutter phenomena,â especially rock music.
	www.americanoutlook.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=article_detail&id=1418 (2206 words)

	《美国精神的关闭》The Closing of the American Mind_低掉的书斋_狐狼青年社区 - powered by X-Space
		The introduction is a brilliant concise indictment of the modern "openness" of the mind, which is simply the unquestioning dogmatic self-contradictory cultural relativism.
		The rationality that was the cornerstone at the creation of the American nation, and which led to a culture firmly based on the belief of inalienable rights, has been replaced by mysticism which perverts the protection of individual rights into protection of minorities.
		It is an article of faith, an indoctrination that is responsible for the closing of American mind; its closing to the pursuit of better life, which cannot happen when the means of evaluating alternatives is destroyed, and the desire to compare and contrast---uprooted.
	www.hulang.net /site/html/10/10_itemid_176.html (2082 words)

	Closing Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	www.buydiscountedbooks.com /10719_closing-of-the-american-mind/allan-bloom.html (130 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 14. Bloom in Love. Mark Greif. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sometime in the years before his death, his ideas were unceremoniously remaindered on the stock shelves of the American mind.
		He was Bloom's close friend, and his record of their friendship exceeds most recent literature for elegance and emotion.
		Americans are meant to be a free and open people who allow every citizen the same presupposition of ordinariness, who are quick to encourage and slow to judge.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/14/greif-m.html (2791 words)

	The Closing of the American Mind
		That it is a moral issue for students is revealed by the character of their response when challenged- a combination of disbelief and indignation: "Are you an absolutist?," the only alternative they know, uttered in the same tone as "Are you a monarchist?" or "Do you really believe in witches?".
		However, in attacking ethnocentrism, what they actually do is to assert unawares the superiority of their scientific understanding and the inferiority of the other cultures which do not recognize it at the same time that they reject all such claims to superiority.
		That present is so closed to doubt about so many things impeding the progress of its principles that unqualified openness to it would mean forgetting the despised alternatives to it.
	www.pc.maricopa.edu /departments/ss/phi101/II/II_E___Introduction_Our_Virtue (7778 words)

	Book of the Week (1/5/2002): Allan Bloom: The Closing of the American Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Closing of the American Mind is a smartly written but wildly overpraised book, one which shoots itself in the foot way too many times to take seriously.
		He shakes his head at their total lack of interest in culture, in the life of the mind, and in their appalling tastes in music.
		Martin Gardner wrote a smart dissection of The Closing of the American Mind for Education and Society (Spring 1988) back when the book was first published.
	www.thegline.com /book-of-the-week/2002/01-05-2002.htm (1868 words)

	Thoughts, Books, and Philosophy / J.H. Bowden :: The Closing of the American Mind :: October :: 2006
		Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987) pp.
		Bloom identified two kinds of openness – openness to indifference, and an openness that is an awareness of ignorance inviting the quest for knowledge and certitude.
		Openness to closedness is what we teach, which is what the book is about—the closing of the American mind.
	readmejhb.blogsome.com /2006/10/17/the-closing-of-the-american-mind (460 words)

	The Closing of the American Mind - Politics, Investments & Current Affairs - Automotive Forums .com Car Chat- A Message ...
		Just when everybody thought the United States was closing in on Bin Laden and his al-Qaida, George W. Bush made an abrupt detour in August 2002 and pointed at a new target: Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
		The American people now find themselves precisely in a situation where they cannot exercise their critical faculties without inviting scorn or suspicion.
		That's ok, he's entitled to speak his mind, that doesnt mean I have to agree with what he says.
	www.automotiveforums.com /t93764.html (1729 words)

	Review of Alien Nation: The Closing of the American Mind
		A series of institutional accidents," he writes, "of which birthright citizenship is just one, has essentially robbed Americans of the power to determine who, and how many, can enter their national family, make claims on it...
		This is necessary, if irrational, because we need to arrive at (3): "Americans" have to feel justified in not "sharing" what has become, between the lines, theirs to dispense.
		That can be done only by an American majority that is confident and strong." Brimelow's argument does underscore the limitations of multiculturalism and Benetton hand-holding, which cannot be more than marketing strategies as long as white supremacy remains in full effect.
	www.vdare.com /pb/anation_review_27.htm (1543 words)

	The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, A Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A paradoxical aspect of Bloom's book is that he deals with two forms of openness and goes on to show how what is called openness in the first form actually amounts to a "closing of the mind".
		Bloom sees that one form of openness, relativism or amour-propre, really amounts to a "closing of the American mind", and that the radicals who promote great plans to equalize economic and social opportunities are doomed to failure.
		It was a similar closing of the French people's mind that allowed popularly-supported paid vacations to become more important than national defense.
	www.doyletics.com /arj/tcamrvw.htm (3430 words)

	Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
		Political correctness and its stifling effects were not truly understood until Alan Bloom put his mind to the subject.
		In the midst of the political correctness of campus life he saw a developing crisis in American higher education where classical western thought was shunned; untenable and untried leftist philosophies were manufactured and propounded in their place.
		"The closing of the American Mind" was viciously attacked by academe, but it served to enlighten the truly thoughtful to trends that could ultimately send America socially and economically into a tailspin.
	www.conservativemonitor.com /top-ten/closing-american-mind.shtml (242 words)

	Oasis of Loneliness: the closing of the american mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oasis of Loneliness: the closing of the american mind
		i was schooled in the US for a few years, and i sometimes feel a sense of awe at how the americans would debate issues, being opiniated of sorts, and being opened to criticism.
		or is it that the americans (and the western man in general) are closing their mind from critics which are based on their own logic?
	adipujangga.blogspot.com /2005/09/closing-of-american-mind.html (160 words)

	CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
		I concur with this reviwer and want to add that Allan Bloom needs to take close look at the literature that he espouses as being some of the most enlightened.
		The American university in the 1960s experienced the dismantling of the structure of rational inquiry by the New Left just as had the German university in the 1930s by the Nazis.
		Bloom experienced it first hand as a profesor at Cornell University in the 1960s when radicals brought guns on to the campus to demand cirriculum changes and lower academic standards in the name of equality.
	www.physicianbooks.com /MedicalBooks/isbn0671657151.html (499 words)

	Allan Bloom
		His book, The Closing of the American Mind, is essential reading in order to understand Bloom’s thought and the decay of the modern university.
		He lays the blame for the closing of the American mind on the current value of openness.
		The American mind is closed because in advocating the value relativism, people are open to anything and everything, a move which enslaves us to the particular.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Bloom.html (893 words)

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