Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom
Allan David Bloomwas an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago. Bloom championed the idea of Great Books education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind. Characterized as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth14 September 1930
CountryUnited States of America
Allan Bloom quotes about
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.