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PHILOSOPHER

Allan Bloom

1930 - 1992

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Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allan Bloom has received more than 671,715 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Allan Bloom is the 1,015th most popular philosopher (down from 978th in 2019), the 5,546th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,372nd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 48.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Allan Bloom ranks 1,015 out of 1,081. Before him are Sosipatra, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Hicetas, John Peckham, John Scott Haldane, and Immanuel Hermann Fichte. After him are Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Northrop Frye, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Oakeshott, Philip of Opus, and Derek Parfit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Allan Bloom ranks 316. Before him are Dawn Addams, Kurt Nielsen, Edna O'Brien, Giuliano Montaldo, Bobby Bland, and Bob Guccione. After him are Bradford Dillman, Hector Bianciotti, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Michel Deguy, Jānis Krūmiņš, and Herbert Erhardt. Among people deceased in 1992, Allan Bloom ranks 157. Before him are Buddy Rogers, Michael Gothard, Amjad Khan, Vincent Gardenia, Nancy Walker, and Lisa Fonssagrives. After him are Tony Accardo, Claude Aveline, Rosemary Sutcliff, Kenneth MacMillan, Mary Norton, and Andrew Marton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allan Bloom ranks 5,546 out of 18,182. Before him are Bob Guccione (1930), Jennifer Ehle (1969), Julie Bowen (1970), Tyler Perry (1969), Susanna Hoffs (1959), and Bruce Kulick (1953). After him are Shirley Verrett (1931), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Leighton Meester (1986), Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), Johnny Knoxville (1971), and Gene Tunney (1897).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Allan Bloom ranks 50. Before him are Ram Dass (1931), Mary Daly (1928), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Amos Bronson Alcott (1799), Stanley Cavell (1926), and Barrington Moore Jr. (1913). After him are Hubert Dreyfus (1929), William Lane Craig (1949), Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787), Richard Posner (1939), Sandra Harding (1935), and Amina Wadud (1952).

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