Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-90 - Hardcover

Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Sehr gut. 395 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Price tag and bar code sticker on jacket, sticker residue on jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Preisschild und Barcode auf dem Umschlag, Stickerrückstand auf Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Three years ago, The Closing of the American Mind became the number-one national best-seller, the most talked-about book of its time. Now Allan Bloom returns with a far-ranging volume of essays on teachers, books, and education. With the unconventional wisdom that made his earlier book an intellectual sensation, Bloom explains why he is neither a conservative nor an elitist; criticizes current liberal theories of justice; praises such contemporary thinkers as Leo Strauss, Raymond Aron, and Alexandre Kojève; analyzes the shortcomings of the modern university; and interprets the works of Shakespeare, Swift, Rousseau, and Plato. Written with the passion, wit, and insight that have already fired the imagination of the reading public, these essays confirm Allan Bloom as America's boldest and most controversial educator. - Allan Bloom is codirector of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor in the Committee on Social Thought. He has taught at Yale, Cornell, the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Paris. He is the translator and editor of Plato's Republic and Rousseau's Emile, and the author of Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa) and The Closing of the American Mind. ISBN 9780671707774 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 608 Original half cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1184646

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