Giants And Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990
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At the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and culture stands Allan Bloom, one of America's most provocative intellectual voices of the twentieth century. Giants and Dwarfs gathers thirty years of Bloom's most searching essays — from 1960 to 1990 — presenting a sweeping critique of modern liberal education, the Western canon, and the philosophical tradition from Plato to Rousseau. With characteristic wit and erudition, Bloom argues that the modern academy has abandoned its responsibility to transmit the great ideas of Western civilisation, leaving students intellectually impoverished and morally adrift. Each essay in this collection illustrates Bloom's commanding grasp of political philosophy, drawing on thinkers as diverse as Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche to challenge the assumptions of contemporary democratic culture. Written in the same incisive, unapologetically polemical style that made The Closing of the American Mind a landmark bestseller, these essays reward the reader with a bracing encounter with the great questions — what is justice, what is education, what does it mean to live well — leaving one to wonder whether the giants of the past still have something urgent to say to our diminished present.
Author: Allan Bloom
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and culture stands Allan Bloom, one of America's most provocative intellectual voices of the twentieth century. Giants and Dwarfs gathers thirty years of Bloom's most searching essays — from 1960 to 1990 — presenting a sweeping critique of modern liberal education, the Western canon, and the philosophical tradition from Plato to Rousseau. With characteristic wit and erudition, Bloom argues that the modern academy has abandoned its responsibility to transmit the great ideas of Western civilisation, leaving students intellectually impoverished and morally adrift. Each essay in this collection illustrates Bloom's commanding grasp of political philosophy, drawing on thinkers as diverse as Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche to challenge the assumptions of contemporary democratic culture. Written in the same incisive, unapologetically polemical style that made The Closing of the American Mind a landmark bestseller, these essays reward the reader with a bracing encounter with the great questions — what is justice, what is education, what does it mean to live well — leaving one to wonder whether the giants of the past still have something urgent to say to our diminished present.