![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a thirteen-year-old, Bloom read a Reader's Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents he wanted to attend his parents thought it was unreasonable and did not encourage his hopes. The couple had a daughter, Lucille, two years earlier. Saul Bellow wrote Ravelstein, a roman à clef based on Bloom, his friend and colleague at the University of Chicago.īloom was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to second-generation Jewish parents who were both social workers. Characterized as a conservative in the popular media, Bloom denied the label, asserting that what he sought to defend was the "theoretical life". He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Yale University, the École normale supérieure, and the University of Chicago.īloom championed the idea of Great Books education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. ![]() Mansfield, Alan Keyes, Paul Wolfowitz, Michael SugrueĪllan David Bloom (Septem– October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. Janet Ajzenstat, Francis Fukuyama, Thomas Pangle, Harvey C. ![]()
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