2. Both Bloom's friends (evangelical Christians loved the book) & foes (much of the academic left) mistook it for a traditionalist lament. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, former Bloom student, was among the few who recognized it as a closeted gay man's defense of his special identity.
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3. At the end of Pride month, some thoughts on Allan Bloom as political philosopher of the closet.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-allan-bloom-and-the-conservative?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Judging (and touting) a book by its cover. Wonder how many people who bought it actually read it.
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How many evangelicals -- or conservatives, for that matter -- actually read the entirety of The Closing of the American Mind and the supporting texts that buttressed Bloom's argument?
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Evangelicals have typically not even read the bible.
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Having lived through that era it ABSOLUTELY was.
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The most interesting thing about that book being published is that Bloom was financed by the Olin foundation. It was straight up right wing propaganda but it was treated by msm as serious intellectual inquiry.
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Interesting listen, but ‘did nothing of the sort’ is incorrect Sedgwick’s thesis is not that the book was purely an expression of closeted sexuality Or by “traditional values” do you mean those claimed by people like Falwell?
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Yes, I mean that Bloom's ideal (the Platonic philosophical life) was not at all Falwell's.
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