Allan Bloom
American philosopher
Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. Wikipedia
Born: September 14, 1930, Indianapolis, IN
Died: October 7, 1992 (age 62 years), Chicago, IL
Influenced by: Leo Strauss, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and more
Education: The University of Chicago (1955)
Notable ideas: The "openness" of relativism leads paradoxically to the great "closing"
Notable work: The Closing of the American Mind (1987)