"The Ladder of Love," Plato's Symposium, trans. Seth Benardete, University of Chicago Press, 2001. First published in Love and Friendship, Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Books
Shakespeare on Love and Friendship
Shakespeare on Love and Friendship, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Love and Friendship
Love and Friendship, Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Giants and Dwarfs
Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990, Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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.
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.
The Crisis of American Democracy and Liberal Education
The Crisis of American Democracy and Liberal Education: Collected Essays, 1986.
Rousseau’s Emile
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile: or On Education, translated with notes and an introduction by Allan Bloom, Basic Books, 1979.
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.
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.