Editing Allan Bloom (section)

==Career and death==
Bloom studied and taught in Paris (1953–55) at the École normale supérieure,<ref>Strauss had sent Bloom to Paris without sufficient funding, and when Bloom was broke he sold his books to [[Ernest Fortin]], a young Catholic priest doing graduate studies there.  Father Fortin reported that this forced-purchase of Strauss' works was his introduction to Strauss.  J. Brian Benestad, ed., ''Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good: Untimely Meditations on Religion and Politics'', at 317 (Rowman & Littlefield 1996).</ref> and Germany (1957). Upon returning to the United States in 1955, he taught adult education students at the University of Chicago with his friend [[Werner J. Dannhauser]], author of ''Nietzsche's View of Socrates''. Bloom went on to teach at Yale from 1960 to 1963, at [[Cornell University|Cornell]] until 1970, and at the University of Toronto until 1979, when he returned to the University of Chicago. Among Bloom's former students are prominent journalists, government officials and political scientists such as [[Francis Fukuyama]], Robert Kraynak, Pierre Hassner, [[Clifford Orwin]], [[Janet Ajzenstat]], [[John Ibbitson]], [[James W. Ceaser|James Ceaser]], and Thomas Pangle.

In 1963, as a professor at Cornell, Allan Bloom served as a faculty member of the [[Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association]], an organization focused on intellectual development and self-governance. The students received free room and board in the [[Telluride House]] on the [[Cornell University]] campus and assumed the management of the house themselves. While living at the house, Bloom befriended former U.S. Secretary of Labor [[Frances Perkins]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Downey|first1=Kirstin|title=The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience|date=2009|publisher=Nan A. Talese/Doubleday|location=New York|isbn=978-0-385-51365-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/womanbehindnew00down/page/384 384]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/womanbehindnew00down/page/384}}</ref> Bloom's first book was a collection of three essays on Shakespeare's plays, ''[[Shakespeare's Politics]]''; it included an essay from [[Harry V. Jaffa]]. He translated and commented upon Rousseau's "[[Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles|Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theater]]", bringing it into dialogue with [[Plato's Republic|Plato's ''Republic'']]. In 1968, he published his most significant work of philosophical translation and interpretation, a translation of Plato's ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]''. Bloom strove to achieve "translation ... for the serious student".  The preface opens on page xi with the statement, "this is intended to be a literal translation."<ref>Bloom, Allan. 1968 (2nd ed 1991). ''The Republic of Plato''. (translated, with notes and an interpretive essay, by Bloom). New York: Basic Books.</ref>{{Page needed|date=May 2013}} Although the translation is not universally accepted, Bloom said he always conceptualized the translator's role as a matchmaker between readers and the texts he translated.<ref>Bloom, Allan. 1991. ''Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960–1990''. New York: Touchstone Books</ref>{{Page needed|date=May 2013}} He repeated this effort as a professor of political science at the University of Toronto in 1978, translating [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s ''[[Emile: Or, On Education|Emile]]''. Among other publications during his years of teaching was a reading of Swift's ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', titled "Giants and Dwarfs"; it became the title for a collection of essays on, among others, Raymond Aron, Alexandre Kojève, Leo Strauss, and liberal philosopher [[John Rawls]]. Bloom was an editor for the scholarly journal ''[[Political Theory (journal)|Political Theory]]'' as well as a contributor to ''[[History of Political Philosophy]]'' (edited by [[Joseph Cropsey]] and Leo Strauss).

After returning to Chicago, he befriended and taught courses with Saul Bellow. In 1987 Bellow wrote the preface to ''The Closing of the American Mind''.

Bloom's last book, which he dictated while in the hospital dying, and which was published posthumously, was ''Love and Friendship'', an offering of interpretations on the meaning of love. There is an ongoing controversy over Bloom's semi-closeted homosexuality, possibly culminating, as in Saul Bellow's thinly fictionalized account in ''Ravelstein'', in his death in 1992 from [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/allan-bloom-and-the-conservative-mind.html?_r=0 |title=Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 4, 2005 |author=Jim Sleeper |quote=Far from being a conservative ideologue, Bloom, a University of Chicago professor of political philosophy who died in 1992, was an eccentric interpreter of Enlightenment thought who led an Epicurean, quietly gay life. |access-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-date=June 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620000604/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/allan-bloom-and-the-conservative-mind.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/18/lazere |title='The Closing of the American Mind,' 20 Years Later |newspaper=Inside Higher Ed |date=September 18, 2007 |quote=[Paul Wolfowitz said] in Bloom's Chicago circle when he was alive, 'It was sort of, Don't ask, don't tell.' But whether Bloom had AIDS is disputed. |author=Donald Lazare |access-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619221219/https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/18/lazere |url-status=live }}</ref> Bloom's friends do not deny his homosexuality, but whether he actually died of AIDS remains disputed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000416mag-ravelstein.html |title=With Friends Like Saul Bellow |newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |author=D.T. Max |access-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-date=March 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307185103/http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000416mag-ravelstein.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Epstein|title=Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oVvclZl85AC&pg=PT162|year=2011|quote=No one ever said it aloud, but it was important to Bloom's friends, none of whom denied his homosexuality, that he died of an auto-immune disease rather than one associated with sexual promiscuity.|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-618-72194-8|page=146}}</ref>