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...Assistant Dean of HLS Allan S. Ray says that the main focus of four recent faculty appointments has been increasing the breadth of scholarship...
...Saul Bellow choose to fictionalize the life of his dear friend, the late Allan Bloom? Perhaps it is because the facts of Bloom's life require a hermeneutic to frame a relatively coherent picture...
...Bellow writes many philosophical asides into the book. These very brief but highly content-full paragraphs remind us not only of Ravelstein's appetite for all the belles lettres, but also, by proxie, of Allan Bloom's own writing style. In the Closing of the American Mind, the screed on anti-intellectualism and academic nihilism that made him rich and famous,Bloom dispatches most Continental philosophy in a page, and postmodernism in a few short paragraphs. Here was a man who saw in grand narratives but could very easily produce piquant details at the first challenge...
...book is about Allan Bloom. Nearly every reviewer-me included-reads the real life Allan Bloom where Bellow wrote Ravelstein. We can't disentangle the two, and I'm not sure we're supposed to. I find it interesting that Bellow has apologized publicly for revealing so much about Bloom's life. And the book's hesitancy is testament to this being a long-standing conflict for Bellow...
...portrait of Ravelstein is an accurate analogy, Bellow saw Allan Bloom as passionate, sexual, a lover of young (very young) men, guided as the Greeks were by moral aestheticism. And yet he was a firm contrarian, deplored action on impulse, and was convinced, almost mythically, of the steadiness of certain virtues and of the necessity of a reflective life...