Thanks to Lawrence Levine's scholarship, I see the real downfall as occurring in the late 19th century, when Shakespeare migrated from being a popular dramatist with a near universal audience to a classroom artifact used to uphold WASP supremacy.
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Very interesting book -- particularly on the near universal popularity of Shakespeare in 19th century.https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674390775 …
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Levine isn't a political theorist, so I can imagine he and Bloom talked passed each other. The audience reception history in HIghbrow/Lowbrow is very interesting and to my mind convincing.
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The thing is, Bloom's idea of what constitutes eduction (essentially the Straussian project of awakening a very few elite students to philosophy) is so far from what most people understand as education that it's easy to miss the target.
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I wonder if the turn to Rousseau came as result of the great crisis of his life, the early 1960s discovery that Strauss didn't think he was a good student.
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