Allan Bloom on Eros, Language, and Human Connection

„The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.“

Dr. Alan BloomAllan Bloom reflects on eros, the delicacy of language, and the lost hope of human connectedness.
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Dr. Alan Bloom was a respected cultural scholar who specialized in the significance of art and culture for children.

Allan Bloom reflects on the importance of delicate language, the dimensions of eros, and the loss of human connectedness.


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Dr. Alan Bloom was a renowned cultural scholar and educator who focused extensively on the role of art in child development and the culture industry. His work highlights how certain media and art forms are tailored specifically toward young audiences.

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"The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros." Allan Bloom
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." Gore Vidal
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"We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one." Allan Bloom
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"Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight." Eduardo Galeano
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"A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes." Hans-Georg Gadamer
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