RT Book T1 The closing of the American mind: how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students T2 A touchstone book A1 Bloom, Allan David 1930-1992 A2 Bellow, Saul 1915-2005 LA English PP New York, NY PB Simon and Schuster YR 1987 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/018706266 AB Klappentext: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students. The author says, "More than anything else, this book is to be taken as a report from the front. The reader can judge for himself the gravity of our situation. Every age has its problems, and I do not claim that things were wonderful in the past. I am describing our present situation and do not intend any comparison with the past to be used as grounds for congratulations or blaming ourselves but only for the sake of clarifying what counts for us and what is special in our situation." CN LA227.3 SN 0671657151 SN 0671479903 K1 Education, Higher : United States : Philosophy K1 Education, Humanistic : United States K1 Education, Higher : Political aspects : United States K1 Innenpolitik K1 Bildungspolitik K1 Bildung K1 Erziehung K1 Weltbild K1 Student K1 Schüler K1 Politisches Bewusstsein K1 Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein K1 Grundwerte K1 Demokratie K1 Gesellschaft K1 Entwicklung K1 Interesse K1 Sozialisation K1 Philosophie K1 United States : Intellectual life : 20th century K1 Usa