title: Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990
author: Allan David Bloom
description: Collected here by University of Chicago professor Bloom (author of the controversial bestseller Closing of the American Mind ) are 19 impressive, previously published essays. Scholarly but accessible to serious, determined general readers are 11 commentaries on Aristophanes, Plato, Rousseau, Swift and Shakespeare, and three on teachers--the influential political theorist Leo Strauss; Raymond Aron, "the last of the liberals"; and Alexandre Kojeve, "the most brilliant man I ever met." The last five essays are on commerce and "culture": Machiavelli and the study of texts, John Rawls's theory of justice, the crisis of liberal education and the democratization of the university. The collection is a notable demonstration of the breadth of Bloom's learning. First serial to Commentary; paperback rights to Touchstone; BOMC alternate. <br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Closing of the American Mind
  Plato's Republic (translator and editor)
  Politics and the Arts: Rousseau s Letter to
  dAlembert (translator and editor)
  Rousseau s Emile (translator and editor)
  Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa)
  
  GIANTS
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  Essays i960— 1990
  ALLAN BLOOM
  A TOUCHSTONE BOOK
  Published by Simon & Schuster
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  • London
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