Reconsidering Alan Bloom´s `Closed Minds`
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Re-reading Bloom, I am thunderstruck, because my inclination is to blame it all on social media and attendant technologies favoring vicarious experience. But Bloom´s 1987 narrative establishes an earlier start. He distinguishes my sixties´ generation from his eighties´ students, in whom tendencies that we initiated yielded a dead end. It may in effect be read […]