Alan Bloom

Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher and academic who championed the idea of 'Great Books' education. Bloom became famous for the criticism of contemporary higher education in his 1987 book, THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND. Bloom's work is not easily definable. Yet there is a thread that links all of his published material. Allan Bloom was a philosopher and he was primarily concerned with preserving that way of life for future philosophers. He accomplished this through scholarly and popular writing, which required different styles of writing, but his objective was consistent throughout.