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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
The Closing of the American Mind draws analogies between the United States and the Weimar Republic. The modern liberal philosophy, he says, enshrined in the Enlightenment thought of John Locke —that a just society could be based upon self-interest alone, coupled by the emergence of relativism in American thought—had led to this crisis.
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American Mind can refer to: The American Mind, a publication by the Claremont Institute; The Closing of the American Mind, 1987 book by Allan Bloom; The Coddling of the American Mind, 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt; The Occupation of the American Mind, 2016 documentary film; Scientific American Mind, a former American popular ...
Allan Bloom, a former professor of Fukuyama, had written The Closing of the American Mind in which he criticized contemporary American popular culture of cultural relativism and student radicalism and intellectual endeavors like postmodernism that had found their roots in the philosophical work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Fukuyama states. [28]
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