The closing of the American mind: how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students

Foreword / Saul Bellow

Students. The clean slate

Books

Music

Relationships

Nihilism, American style. The German connection

Two revolutions and two states of nature

The self

Creativity

Culture

Values

The Nietzcheanization of the left or vice versa

Our ignorance

The university. From Socrates Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede

The Sixties

The student and the university.

Foreword / Saul Bellow

Preface

Introduction : Our virtue

Part I : Students. The clean slate ; Books ; Music ; Relationships

Part II : Nihilism, American style. The German connection ; The self ; Creativity ; Culture ; Values ; The Nietzcheanization of the Left or vice versa ; Our ignorance

Part III : The university. From Socrates' Apology to Heideggar's Rektoratsrede ; The Sixties ; The student and the university

Afterword / Andrew Ferguson.