The Closing of the American Mind (Dust jacket missing)

Description

"A sweeping analysis of the intellectual currents of our century, the Closing of the American Mind is essential to an understanding of America's spiritual malaise."
Foreword
Part One: Students
The clean slate
Books
Music
Relationships
Part Two: Nihilism, American style
The German connection
Two revolutions & two states of nature
The self
Creativity
Culture
Values
The Nietzcheanization of the left or vice versa
Our ignorance
Part Three: The university
From Socrates Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede
The Sixties
The student & the university
Index ISBN:0671479903