Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre, trans. Allan Bloom, The Free Press, 1960. Reprint, Cornell University Press (Agora Editions), 1968.
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Shakespeare’s Politics
Shakespeare's Politics, with Harry V. Jaffa, Basic Books, 1964. Reprint, University of Chicago Press, 1981.
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The Republic of Plato
The Republic of Plato, translated with notes and an interpretive essay by Allan Bloom, Basic Books, 1968. Second edition: Basic Books, 1991.
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Kojeve’s Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
Alexandre Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. James. H. Nichols, Jr., ed. Allan Bloom, Basic Books, 1969. Reprint: Cornell University Press (Agora Editions), 1980.
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Rousseau’s Emile
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile: or On Education, translated with notes and an introduction by Allan Bloom, Basic Books, 1979.
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The Crisis of American Democracy and Liberal Education
The Crisis of American Democracy and Liberal Education: Collected Essays, 1986.
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The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, with a foreword by Saul Bellow, Simon & Schuster, 1987. Reprint, Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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Confronting the Constitution
Confronting the Constitution: The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism, Pragmatism, Exististentialism..., ed. Allan Bloom, American Enterprise Institute, 1990.
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Giants and Dwarfs
Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990, Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Love and Friendship
Love and Friendship, Simon and Schuster, 1993.
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Shakespeare on Love and Friendship
Shakespeare on Love and Friendship, University of Chicago Press, 2000.