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Allan David Bloom (September 14 1930 – October 7 1992) was an American philosopher classicist and academician. He studied under David Grene Leo Strauss Richard McKeon and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University the University of Toronto Yale University École Normale Supérieure of Paris and the University of Chicago.

birth date
1930-09-14
birth place
Indianapolis, United States
death date
1992-10-07
death place
Chicago, Illinois, United States
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Francis Fukuyama, Harvey Mansfield, Alan Keyes, Thomas Pangle
influenced by
Socrates, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Niccolò Machiavelli, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophy, Raymond Aron, Alexandre Kojève, Martin Heidegger, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Leo Strauss
LCCN Id
n/79/29228
main interest
Nihilism, Political philosophy, Continental philosophy, Renaissance philosophy, William Shakespeare, Ancient Greek philosophy, French literature, History of philosophy
notableIdea
Relativism
philosophicalSchool
Continental philosophy, Platonism

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