Allan Bloom Quotes
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind. Simon & Schuster, 1987, p. 25.
This important political concept has a long history. See also {605259}, {626144}, {607508}, and {585931}
His most influential teacher was the English philosopher and feminist, Annie Besant, 1847-1933. See her quotations for some parallel ideas.
See Eddie Bernice Johnson and Otis Singletary for related views
Allan David Bloom was 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, Tel Aviv University, 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 a conservative in the popular media, Bloom denied that he was a conservative, and asserted that what he sought to defend was the "theoretical life". Saul Bellow wrote Ravelstein, a roman à clef based on Bloom, his friend and colleague at the University of Chicago.
