tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post1667427212166158025..comments2024-03-28T22:33:29.066-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: YET ANOTHER BAUBLE FROM MY FILESRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-15881152729560205302024-02-20T05:03:39.023-05:002024-02-20T05:03:39.023-05:00Very nice. Thank you for sharing.Very nice. Thank you for sharing.goomohttp://goomo.pknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-88647612644581468772023-09-01T04:08:24.887-04:002023-09-01T04:08:24.887-04:00Very nice. Thank you for sharing.
Very nice. Thank you for sharing.<br /><br />skardu valleyhttp://travelerswander.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-87403800505815487962020-06-15T07:40:47.834-04:002020-06-15T07:40:47.834-04:00I snorted and choked on my laughter that I started...I snorted and choked on my laughter that I started crying. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-68423260080175034722018-06-27T15:28:03.441-04:002018-06-27T15:28:03.441-04:00Amen. Tongue definitely not in cheek.Amen. Tongue definitely not in cheek.Vini Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472006704934873493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-10135648620149516202016-10-10T21:22:48.506-04:002016-10-10T21:22:48.506-04:00here is an excellent review of the DSM V, reviewed...here is an excellent review of the DSM V, reviewed in a similar vein as a dystopian novel: <br /><br />http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/book-of-lamentations/<br /><br />Utopian Yurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793188513692796773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-21984264707123072972015-05-20T15:59:38.113-04:002015-05-20T15:59:38.113-04:00Cleverness, ridicule, and satire can be used merel...Cleverness, ridicule, and satire can be used merely as a weapon to gratify snobbery and malice, or they can be used as Swift used them, to reveal truth. Your treatment of Bloom's thought is amusing but teaches us nothing beyond revealing your ability at that time to write derisively about an author who questioned your prejudices.Docteur Larivierehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13258267176870672243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-67901742075076983412014-06-04T01:50:23.049-04:002014-06-04T01:50:23.049-04:00In the early twentieth century, in his series of l...In the early twentieth century, in his series of lectures entitled Pragmatism, the philosopher and psychologist William James advanced the thesis that, broadly speaking, people can be separated into two general categories of personality – tough minded and tender minded.<br />http://postmoderndeconstructionmadhouse.blogspot.com/2013/11/bellow-deans-december.html#.UyN3Wj9dXxA<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12280800909689675518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-6934255810579951202014-03-16T16:34:04.951-04:002014-03-16T16:34:04.951-04:00Absolutely delightful.Absolutely delightful.AAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564747083776028016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-64140288696732327572014-03-13T09:54:42.658-04:002014-03-13T09:54:42.658-04:00Bloom's translations of The Republic and Emile...Bloom's translations of The Republic and Emile both pre-date "Closing", and are, at least, popular and commercial successes. I can't make any comment about them from a scholarly perspective, but I do know that I would hesitate to use them because I don't trust Bloom (or any Straussian, really) to do an honest job on them. Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446428606119200980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-44877335843626949832014-03-13T05:53:00.674-04:002014-03-13T05:53:00.674-04:00Well enough regarded to get jobs at Cornell and Ch...Well enough regarded to get jobs at Cornell and Chicago. A cult figure at Chicago, surely, but not a leading Plato scholar, I should think. I had never heard of him before I was asked to review the book, but that is just me. Do any of you classicists out there know?Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-68772762677486407432014-03-12T21:10:46.560-04:002014-03-12T21:10:46.560-04:00How was Allen Bloom regarded before The Closing? ...How was Allen Bloom regarded before <i>The Closing</i>? My understanding is that he was known primarily as a Plato scholar, but how well known or well respected was he before becoming (in-) famous?Blogger is a PITAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522049648491500965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-40806783710064769392014-03-11T21:01:26.346-04:002014-03-11T21:01:26.346-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.D. Ghirlandaiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283931383770759507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-90511776676153575412014-03-11T19:51:11.855-04:002014-03-11T19:51:11.855-04:00I hope no one willl hold that against me!I hope no one willl hold that against me!Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-83251696477746246022014-03-11T19:21:14.833-04:002014-03-11T19:21:14.833-04:00That makes it seem somewhat plausible that you wer...That makes it seem somewhat plausible that you were responsible for the germ of the idea for Ravelstein.Jacob T. Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02575549001627195334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-47043376166125427242014-03-11T18:25:49.987-04:002014-03-11T18:25:49.987-04:00Good grief, that is extraordinary. I had no idea ...Good grief, that is extraordinary. I had no idea he knew about my little jeu d'esprit. He is saying, in a joking manner, that others must be careful in befriending him, but it is he who should have chosen his friends more selectively. Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-59725653968149211732014-03-11T17:54:40.624-04:002014-03-11T17:54:40.624-04:00It looks like Bellow was aware of your review, tho...It looks like Bellow was aware of your review, though probably at second hand. In the new collection of his letters, he writes to Martin Amis on Oct. 20, 1987:<br /><br />"I already mentioned to two London interviewers that in the younger generation on either side of the Atlantic you stand out like the evening star. So they will think that you and I are in cahoots, ganging up on everybody else, conspiring to take the candy away from the other babies. But I am much too old for candy and oddly enough (for a writer of fiction) I have for some years now been saying exactly what I think (whenever I know what that is). The conspiratorial imagination is terrible lively hereabouts. Word has gone out that my friend Allan Bloom is nothing but one of my fictional creations and that I have put him over on the USA, successful book and all. So one does lay oneself open to accusations by being friendly and generous to me, and you were generous, when you agreed to do a BBC number."<br /><br />At 8373 in the Kindle edition.Gary Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07932832538448170566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-48961611261127430672014-03-11T00:05:01.205-04:002014-03-11T00:05:01.205-04:00At least he wasn't a b lood relation! That...At least he wasn't a b lood relation! That's got to count for something.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-42803085936382144742014-03-10T18:19:22.101-04:002014-03-10T18:19:22.101-04:00Oops. Oops.Oops. Oops.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547302679904413077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-9042505717422926192014-03-10T18:04:36.207-04:002014-03-10T18:04:36.207-04:00I can't confess to ever having been thought or...I can't confess to ever having been thought or made to look like Adler. But I would be remiss if I didn't admit that I am related to him. That is, back in the very early seventies my then wife and I owned a pug, who had puppies, one of whom we gave to one of her professors, that is, to one of my then wife's professors, one Leonard Mannheim. Mannheim was Adler's cousin. Ergo....Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547302679904413077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-61100021860138070892014-03-10T18:04:25.854-04:002014-03-10T18:04:25.854-04:00I can't confess to ever having been thought or...I can't confess to ever having been thought or made to look like Adler. But I would be remiss if I didn't admit that I am related to him. That is, back in the very early seventies my then wife and I owned a pug, who had puppies, one of whom we gave to one of her professors, that is, to one of my then wife's professors, one Leonard Mannheim. Mannheim was Adler's cousin. Ergo....Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547302679904413077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-75345561044245519152014-03-10T18:04:23.563-04:002014-03-10T18:04:23.563-04:00I can't confess to ever having been thought or...I can't confess to ever having been thought or made to look like Adler. But I would be remiss if I didn't admit that I am related to him. That is, back in the very early seventies my then wife and I owned a pug, who had puppies, one of whom we gave to one of her professors, that is, to one of my then wife's professors, one Leonard Mannheim. Mannheim was Adler's cousin. Ergo....Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547302679904413077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-38214180830223646332014-03-10T08:16:22.917-04:002014-03-10T08:16:22.917-04:00I know about Ravelstein, although I have not read ...I know about Ravelstein, although I have not read it. But I had not heard at all about the Mortimer Adler book. In 1963, when I was a young Assistant Professor at Chicago, the wife of a former student, who aspired to be a portrait painter, did a charcoal portrait of me [my wife commissioned it as a birthday surprise] that made me look like Adler. It sort of bummed me out.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-37953967936293388812014-03-09T21:34:53.477-04:002014-03-09T21:34:53.477-04:00It seems that Bellow wrote another novel about Blo...It seems that Bellow wrote another novel about Bloom (or “Bloom”), entitled Ravelstein (New York: Penguin, 2000). Or perhaps they are both about Ravelstein (or “Ravelstein”).<br />At any rate, your treatment of The Closing of the American Mind was no more cutting than some of the remarks I remember reading at the time in Mortimer Adler’s Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1988, edited by Geraldine Van Doren)<br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547302679904413077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-33642364171118619322014-03-08T18:39:20.005-05:002014-03-08T18:39:20.005-05:00If I were one to say, "Bless you, my good man...If I were one to say, "Bless you, my good man," and you were one for whom having that said to you in a more than perfunctory way would be meaningful, I would say it to you. Perhaps we can both be satisfied with my hearty, "Thanks."Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547302679904413077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-73549104450264946992014-03-08T18:29:03.381-05:002014-03-08T18:29:03.381-05:00a thing of joy, bravo
a thing of joy, bravo<br />David Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06140749997233608893noreply@blogger.com