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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. In Bloom's view, openness undermines critical thinking and eliminates the point of view that defines cultures. The book became an unexpected best seller, eventually selling close to half a million copies in hardback. Bloom critiques contemporary higher education in the United States and how he sees it is failing its students, criticizing modern movements in philosophy and the humanities. Throughout the book, he attacks the moral relativism that he claims has taken over American universities for the barrier it constructs to the notions of truth, critical thinking, and genuine knowledge. Bloom claims that students in the 1980s have prioritized the imm

The Closing of the American Mind - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1987 book by Allan Bloom {{cite magazine |last=Ferguson |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Ferguson (journalist) |date=April 9, 2012 |title=The Book That Drove Them Crazy |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/the-book-that-drove-them-crazy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205160643/https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/the-book-that-drove-them-crazy |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 5, 2018 |magazine=The Weekly Standard |volume=17 |issue=29 |location=Washi

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