" One of its sections describes how a 13-year-old boy turns into "a pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms" while (*) listening to rock music, which this book condemns for appealing to sexual desire instead of eros.
Benjamin Barber criticized this book in his essay "The Philosopher Despot." Martha Nussbaum's review of this book argued that its author's dogmatic allegiance to the Socratic tradition is in fact anti-Socratic. This book argues that scholars fleeing Nazi Germany brought Nietzsche's ideas to America, where Nietzsche's philosophy mutated into "Nihilism, American Style." One of its sections describes how a 13-year-old boy turns into "a pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms" while (*) listening to rock music, which this book condemns for appealing to sexual desire instead of eros. This book was published along with a foreword by Saul Bellow, who encouraged its author to write it and fictionalized him as the main character of Ravelstein. It helped launch the "canon wars" in the academy after it was published in 1987. For 10 points, name this book that attacked the rise of relativism in American universities, written by Allan Bloom.
Benjamin Barber criticized this book in his essay "The Philosopher Despot."
The Closing of the American Mind