Bloom later disowned the list, saying that it was written at his editor's insistence and distracted from the book's intention.

[5]Piotr Wilczek and Adam Czerniawski [pl] criticized Bloom's narrow interpretation of the concept of the West, significantly underrepresenting and even ignoring works from countries he was not familiar with, such as Poland.

It is used to describe related schools of literary criticism that have gained prominence in academia since the 1970s and which Bloom contended are preoccupied with political and social activism at the expense of aesthetic values.

Bloom contended that the school of resentment threatens the nature of the canon itself and may lead to its eventual demise.

[6] Philosopher Richard Rorty[8] agreed that Bloom is at least partly accurate in his description of the "school of resentment", writing that those identified by Bloom do in fact routinely use "subversive, oppositional discourse" to attack the canon specifically and Western culture in general.