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| Name Allan Bloom |
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| Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, essayist and academic. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure, and the... |
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