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Although ostensibly for a general audience, a reader must know a great deal about literature to understand all of Bloom’s points. Yet it is still possible to appreciate his analyses with only a fraction of the breadth of his knowledge, especially since Bloom ties many of the crucial ideas to more observable historical phenomena, including American history...
...Bloom did not hesitate to refer to current political events at times throughout his reading, at one point spontaneously including “our current president” into a part of the introduction he read from which mentioned those who “reject what they know of Marx, Darwin, and Freud...
Referring to the Bush administration specifically in the interview, Bloom lamented, “that may be the administration for the rest of my life, [or] if not him it’ll be his brother, or someone like him.” He made sure to focus mostly on ideas surrounding literature, though, dismissing his personal political views as “another story...
...past, Bloom has been labeled a conservative by some for his defense of canonical Western writers against postmodern and deconstructionist critics in recent years. (For the record, he calls himself a “left-wing Democrat, whatever that means these days...
...Bloom went so far as to resign from the English department of Yale in 1976 for this growing schism in English studies, as well as the Modern Language Association and the English Institute “with a letter blasting them” for adherence to this trend...