I just finished Allan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind, and I loved it. In case you don’t have time to read the whole book, I have written a short book review that you might find helpful.
Enjoy!
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I just finished Allan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind, and I loved it. In case you don’t have time to read the whole book, I have written a short book review that you might find helpful.
Enjoy!
I assume you know that Bloom was a homosexual — it was/is not a secret.
Also, Bloom, in fact, is a nihilist. What he objected to is not meaninglessness, but (as he put it), “nihilism without the abyss,” i.e., nihilism without the tragic knowledge that nothing is true. It’s no fun to be a nihilist when no one around you believes in truth either; there’s nothing to strip down.
Most folks only read the first third of the book — there it sounds as though he believes in absolute truth. Discerning reviewers, however, note the turn of the book, in good Straussian fashion, in its middle.
Gentlemen, it might be time to deactivate this here blog.
Just a thought.