Allan Bloom war ein amerikanischer Philosoph und Essayist, der für seine Befürwortung der "Great Books"-Bildung bekannt ist. Er wurde berühmt für seine Kritik am zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Hochschulwesen, die er in seinem Bestseller-Buch darlegte.
Eine Kritik der intellektuellen und moralischen Verwirrungen dieser Zeit argumentiert, dass die soziale und politische Krise des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts in Amerika tatsächlich eine intellektuelle Krise ist. Das Buch zeigt, wie die amerikanische Demokratie Ideen des Nihilismus, der Verzweiflung und des Relativismus beherbergt, die als Toleranz getarnt sind.
"From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity's reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it"--
An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.
A collection of moving and meditative poems that richly evoke a Gen X childhood in Los Angeles, exploring how our early recognitions shape our lives.
Die Ausgabe enthält Platons „Staat“, die Summe seiner Philosophie, in vollständiger deutscher Übersetzung mit ausführlicher Einleitung und Stellenkommentar.
A literary critic's journey through the Talmud.
The recent work of this New York-based artist who works with extraordinary painterly and calligraphic artistic detail.
Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In addition to the corrected text itself there is also a rich and valuable essay—as well as indexes—which will better enable the reader to approach the heart of Plato's intention.
This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics. The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete’s work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete’s philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground, guided by the key he found in the Platonic dialogue: probing the meaning of speeches embedded in deeds, he uncovers the unifying intention of the work by tracing the way it unfolds through a movement of its own. Benardete’s original interpretations of the classics are the fruit of this discovery of the “argument of the action.”
