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1: Introduction: Political Philosophy and Poetry 2: On Christian and Jew: The Merchant of Venice 3: Cosmopolitan Man and the Political Community: Othello 4: The Morality of the Pagan Hero: Julius Caesar 5: The Limits of Politics: King Lear, Act I, Scene i Harry V. JaffaAcknowledgments Index

This book addresses the question, can the constitution survive postconstitutional thought? The 17 essays in this volume examine first the precepts of the founding fathers and their mentors. Then the most significant postconstitutional ideas are outlined, together with analyses of how they harmonize with the constitution and how they undermine it. Bloom is author of "The Closing of the American Mind".

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, ...

The best available English translation... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review

The essays in America, the West, and Liberal Education attempt to advance our understanding of the proper purposes of liberal education in America by exploring the relationship between the free pursuit of truth and the practical ends embedded in a particular tradition or political community.

Siguiendo los consejos de Jonathan Swift de mirar el mundo alternativamente desde la posición de enanos y de gigantes, Allan Bloom se acerca a la tradición filosófica occidental, no para aparecer más grande sobre los hombres de los gigantes del pensamiento, sino para juzgar nuestras flaquezas desde su altura. Se trata de un ejercicio de lúcida humildad que permite cultivar una profunda amistad con los autores del pasado y renovar la vigencia d...

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Bloom argues that the social and political crisis of modern America is really an intellectual crisis and shows how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized ideas of relativism disguised as tolerance.

In Bloom's view, we live in a love-impoverished age, and he asks readers to turn once more to Shakespeare because no other writer holds up a truer mirror to human nature. This volume includes essays on five plays as the author meditates on Shakespeare's work as a whole.