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	Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare The complete audio version of the play. A rare and famous performance. Recorded on Caedmon, but now long unavailable and out of print. Most library editions are now in a state of disintegration. (With Jeremy Brett) Caedmon Recording 1961 Keywords: Shakespeare; Troilus and Cressida; Allan Bloom Downloads: 257 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allan Bloom: Nietzsche Lecture 1983 - Allan Bloom [edited and digitally remastered, 2008] This lecture was delivered at Boston College in 1983 to a small group for a series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives". It was intended to explore great philosophic works with a view to how they should be taught to undergraduates. The theme of the seminar was conceived in light of the decline & fall of liberal education in the University. In this lecture Bloom discusses Nietzsche's rejection of liberal democracy, contemporary nihilism, the Last Man, and the Will to Power... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Nietzsche; Existentialism; Heidegger; Political Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; Philosophy; Liberalism; Democracy; Nihilism; Tocqueville Downloads: 1,699 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 1/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 864
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 2/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 609
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 3/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 546
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 4/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 401
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 4 of 5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 205
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 5/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince; Aristotle Downloads: 538
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 2 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss Downloads: 674
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 3 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli Downloads: 799
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 4 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli Downloads: 509
	Allan Bloom - Statement on Alexander Kojeve - Allan Bloom Bloom's introductory editor's statement that prefaces the translation to Kojeve's lectures on Hegel. Keywords: Alexander Kojeve; Allan Bloom; Hegel; Nietzsche; Marx; Heidegger; Existentialism; Historicism; Leo Strauss; Fukuyama Downloads: 114
	Allan Bloom: The Crisis of American Democracy and Liberal Education (Collected Essays) - Allan Bloom A series of essays all published separately by Allan Bloom, most prior to the "Closing of the American Mind", dealing with the problems of liberal education in America, the decline of humane learning, and its special relation to the founding of America. Keywords: Allan Bloom; Liberal Education; Liberalism; Education; Political Philosophy; Tocqueville; Nietzsche; Federalist Papers; Leo Strauss; Nihilism; Fukuyama Downloads: 906
	Allan Bloom - The Political Philosophy of Isocrates, Ph.D. dissertation - Allan Bloom Bloom's doctoral dissertation for the Committee on Social Thought, written under the supervision, I believe, of David Grene and Leo Strauss. Anastoplo considers it one of the best things Bloom ever wrote. I don't believe Bloom would agree, but it is clearly a work of surpassing insight and philosophic passion. Keywords: Allan Bloom; Political Philosophy; Isocrates; Leo Strauss; David Grene; Rhetoric; Philosophy Downloads: 236
	Husserl's "Crisis of the European Sciences" - Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) 2 selections from Husserl's work on the crisis of the meaning of science for life. This is quite possibly the most important work Husserl ever wrote. Husserl's phenomenological analysis ended in the radical analysis of the whole development of modern science.The sections given here indicate the fundamental problem, the historical approach to its elucidation, and the discovery of Descartes as the pivotal figure who originated the essential character of modern scientific & philosophic consciousnes... Keywords: Edmund Husserl; Phenomenology; Heidegger; Existentialism; Leo Strauss; Allan Bloom; Philosophy; Positivism; Historicism; Science Downloads: 690
	Ideas, Part I - Edmund Husserl Edmund Husserl Ideas, Volume One.(1913) Translated into English. This work is the true foundation of phenomenology as the transcendental science of pure consciousness; it becomes the foundational science of all sciences, allegedly replacing all metaphysics, or "first philosophy". Husserl struggled with and profoundly explored the Cartesian postulate of the ego, single-mindedly probing its enigmatic conundrums in an effort to give a perfectly lucid and precise account of what philosophic man is. Keywords: Husserl; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Descartes; Leo Strauss; Martin Heidegger; Allan Bloom; Existentialism Downloads: 592
	Ideas, Part II - Edmund Husserl Ideas, Part II - Edmund Husserl Edmund Husserl Ideas, Volume TWO.(1913) Translated into English. Keywords: Edmund Husserl; Husserl; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Descartes; Leo Strauss; Martin Heidegger; Allan Bloom; Existentialism Downloads: 471
	Martin Heidegger - The Self Assertion of the German University 1933 - Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger's [in]famous "Rectoratsrede" or "Rector's inaugural address", given in 1933. A careful reading of this speech is essential for anyone trying to understand the early philosophy of Heidegger, and why he eventually withdrew from politics. Leo Strauss' essays entitled "Existentialism" and "German Nihilism" should be read in conjunction with this speech. Keywords: Martin Heidegger; Leo Strauss; Historicism; Existentialism; Allan Bloom; Husserl; Philosophy; Socrates; Nietzsche; Nihilism; Nazism Downloads: 716
	Plato's Republic [Allan Bloom's translation] - Plato the complete text of the second edition of Allan Bloom's now classic and authoritative literal translation of the ''Politeia'', better known as Plato's Republic. The text includes Bloom's ambitious interpretive essay, which can initiate any thoughtful and open-minded undergraduate to the fundamental problems of philosophy and the city. Keywords: Plato; The Republic; Plato's Republic; Politeia; Allan Bloom; Socrates; Political Philosophy Downloads: 860
	Dictionary of Music - Jean-Jacques Rousseau This is the complete text of Rousseau's masterpiece on ancient, medieval, and modern music. Keywords: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Rousseau; Music; Dictionary of Music; Enlightenment; Rameau; Leo Strauss; Allan Bloom; Plato Downloads: 1,000
	Allan Bloom's Aristotle Lecture: the Ethics - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Aristotle's Ethics... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Aristotle; Ethics; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 912
	Allan Bloom - Shakespeare, Poetry, and Politics - Allan Bloom Bloom's introduction to "Shakespeare's Politics" Keywords: Allan Bloom; Shakespeare; Homer; Poetics; Plato; Aristotle; Dante; Virgil; Goethe; Lessing; Plutarch; Churchill; Heidegger; Nietzsche; Tocqueville; Rousseau; Philosophy; Political Philosophy Downloads: 97
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 1 [of 4] - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Heidegger; Socrates' Apology; Athens; Aristophanes Downloads: 968
	Plato's Symposium - Plato Literally translated by Seth Benardete. ~ 1986 This translation is the best English translation ever done by a scholar famous for his scrupulous & consistent rendering of the Greek. Keywords: Plato; Symposium; Plato's Symposium; Plato's Banquet; Socrates; Philosophy; Eros; Allan Bloom; Platonic Dialogues; Dialectic; Platonism; Platonic Love; Alcibiades; Aristophanes; Nietzsche Downloads: 1,632
	Strauss on Heidegger: 5 crucial texts - Leo Strauss A group of essays written by Leo Strauss, originally published separately. These essays confront either explicitly or indirectly the radical historicism of Martin Heidegger. Strauss presents the classical idea of the philosophic life over against Heidegger's committed and spirited kind of "thinking" and his conscientious, single minded reflections on man's finitude and the abyss (i.e. Dasein, authentically experienced)... Keywords: Martin Heidegger; Leo Strauss; Historicism; Modernity; Existentialism; Allan Bloom; Husserl; Philosophy; Socrates; Nietzsche; Nihilism; Socrates' Apology; Plato; Xenophon Downloads: 2,321 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allan Bloom: Response to Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man - Allan Bloom Allan Bloom's analysis of the incoherence of Fukuyama's popular & popularized hypothesis after the fall of the Soviet Union and collapse of the Warsaw pact. Bloom shows that Fukuyama has synthesized two notions derived from the thought of Nietzsche and Hegel which contradict one another, forming a nonsensical, not to say highly unpolitical, picture of our situation. Fukuyama seems to celebrate and deplore the victory of liberal democracy in the same breath... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Francis Fukuyama; End of History; Last Man; Alexander Kojeve; Nietzsche; Leo Strauss; Heidegger; Nihilism; Liberalism; Liberal Democracy; Hegel; Karl Marx; Capitalism; Communism; Philosophy; Raymond Aron Downloads: 867
	The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom RES IPSA LOQUITOR The complete text of Allan Bloom's great work on the decay of American life and the political-intellectual causes of the decline of humane learning. It is now more relevant and pertinent than when he wrote it over two decades ago. Since its publication the most prestigious universities in America have seen a continual and ever more rapid decline in what little seriousness, depth, and intellectual discipline was left in them... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Leo Strauss; Nihilism; America; Liberal Education; Heidegger; Nietzsche; Marx; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Rousseau; Tocqueville; Social Science; Sixties; Liberalism; Political Science; Enlightenment; Max Weber; John Rawls; Habermas; Gadamer; Rorty; Isaiah Berlin; Multiculturalism; Relativism; Existentialism Downloads: 662 Average rating: (2 reviews)