Foreword by Saul Bellow 11 // Preface 19 // Introduction: Our Virtue 25 // PART ONE. STUDENTS // The Clean Slate 47 // Books 62 // Music 68 // Relationships 82 // Self-Centeredness 82 // Equality 88 // Race 91 // Sex 97 // Separateness 109 // Divorce 118 // Love 122 // Eros 132 // PART TWO. NIHILISM, AMERICAN STYLE // The German Connection 141 // Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature 157 // The Self 173 // Creativity 180 // Culture 185 // Values 194 // The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa 217 // Our Ignorance 227 // PART THREE. THE UNIVERSITY // From Socrates’ Apology to Heidegger’s Rektoratsrede 243 // Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life 246 // The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society 256 // The Philosophic Experience 268 The Enlightenment Transformation 284 Swift’s // Doubts 293 // Rousseau’s Radicalization and the Cerman University 298 // The Sixties 313 // The Student and the University 336 // Liberal Education 336 // The Decomposition of the University 347 // The Disciplines 356 // Conclusion 380 // Index 383