Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001)
Auteur de How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
A propos de l'auteur
Born in New York, Mortimer Adler was educated at Columbia University. Later as a philosophy instructor there, he taught in a program focused on the intellectual foundations of Western civilization. Called to the University of Chicago in 1927 by President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Adler played a afficher plus major role in renovating the undergraduate curriculum to center on the "great books." His philosophical interests committed to the dialectical method crystallized in a defense of neo-Thomism, but he never strayed far from concerns with education and other vital public issues. From 1942 to 1945, Adler was director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, based in San Francisco, California. Beginning in 1945 he served as associate editor of Great Books of the Western World series, and in 1952 he published Syntopicon, an analytic index of the great ideas in the great books. In 1966 he became director of the editorial planning for the fifteen edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and in 1974, chairman of its editorial board. Adler has been devoted in recent years to expounding his interpretations of selected great ideas and to advocating his Paideia Proposal. That proposal would require that all students receive the same quantity and quality of education, which would concentrate on the study of the great ideas expressed in the great books, a study conducted by means of the dialectical method. Mortimer J. Adler died June 28, 2001 at his home in San Mateo, California at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Mortimer J. Adler
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Conversation (1952) — Directeur de publication — 542 exemplaires
How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization (2000) 401 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Man - World (1952) — Directeur de publication — 343 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Love (1952) — Directeur de publication — 303 exemplaires
Adler's Philosophical Dictionary: 125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon (1995) 147 exemplaires
Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements and Comments on Man and His Institutions by… (1977) — Directeur de publication — 112 exemplaires
Great Ideas Program Volume 02: The Development of Political Theory and Government (1959) 112 exemplaires
The Four Dimensions of Philosophy: Metaphysical, Moral, Objective, Categorical (1993) 88 exemplaires
Great Ideas Program Volume 07: Imaginative Literature - Cervantes to Dostoevsky (1962) 82 exemplaires
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 6, Man and Society (1963) — Directeur de publication — 69 exemplaires
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 2, Imaginative Literature (1963) — Directeur de publication — 69 exemplaires
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 5, Critical Essays (1963) — Directeur de publication — 67 exemplaires
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 7, Man and Society (1963) — Directeur de publication — 66 exemplaires
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 4, Imaginative Literature (1963) — Directeur de publication — 65 exemplaires
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 3, Imaginative Literature (1963) — Directeur de publication — 64 exemplaires
Great Ideas Program Volume 01: Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education (1959) 57 exemplaires
A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large (1992) 54 exemplaires
The Annals of America Volume 04 - 1797-1820 Domestic Expansion & Foreign Entanglements (1968) 42 exemplaires
The Annals of America Volume 10 - 1866-1883 Reconstruction and Industrialization (1968) 39 exemplaires
Haves Without Have-Nots: Essays for the 21st Century on Democracy and Socialism (1991) 36 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 43: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (1990) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
The conditions of philosophy; its checkered past, its present disorder, and its future promise (1965) 27 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 55: 20th Century Philosophy and Religion (1990) 26 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 59: 20th Century Imaginative Literature I (1994) 24 exemplaires
How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings and Thoughts About God (2010) 23 exemplaires
The Annals of America Volume 21 - 1977-1986 Opportunities and Problems at Home and Abroad (1976) 22 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 60: 20th Century Imaginative Literature II (1990) 20 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Idea (1990) 18 exemplaires
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Immortality - Punishment (1990) 18 exemplaires
The American testament: For the Institute for Philosophical Research and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (1975) 9 exemplaires
Family participation plan for reading and discussing the Great books of the Western World (The Great ideas program) (1959) 9 exemplaires
Freedom: A Study of the Development of the Concept in the English and American Traditions of Philosophy (1968) 8 exemplaires
How to Read a Book {video} — Auteur — 8 exemplaires
Great Books of the Western World - 1952 54 vol. set 5 exemplaires
The Idea of Freedom Volume 2: A Dialectical Examination of the Controversies About Freedom (1961) 5 exemplaires
The Great Conversation 4 exemplaires
The Negro in American History: Slaves and Masters 1567-1854 (Volume III of III) (1969) 4 exemplaires
Great books of the Western world : a general introduction to the great books and to a liberal education 3 exemplaires
Problems for Thomists; the problem of species 3 exemplaires
Volume 52 Dostoevsky-1952 edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., (Great Books of the Western World, 52) 3 exemplaires
Great Books of the Western World [1988 Volume 5, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes] 3 exemplaires
The Great Ideas Today: Vol 1961 - 1998 3 exemplaires
Annals of America Volume 20: 1974--1976 The Challenge of Interdependence (The Annals of America, Volume 20) 3 exemplaires
Las Condiciones de la filosofía : su mudable pasado, su desorden presente y su promesa futura (1995) 2 exemplaires
Democracy Begins at Home 2 exemplaires
Education and Democracy 2 exemplaires
The great ideas programme 2 exemplaires
THE GREAT IDEAS, A SYNTOPICON OF GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, VOLUME I,ANGEL TO LOVE, 1977 2 exemplaires
Solution of the Problem of Species 2 exemplaires
Annals of American history 2 exemplaires
COMO PENSAR SOBRE LA GUERRA Y LA PAZ 1 exemplaire
Hard Reading Made Easy 1 exemplaire
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon III: Quality - World 1 exemplaire
The Syntopicon : an index to the great books 1 exemplaire
Fundamental Psychological Ideas 1 exemplaire
Reflections: The Gettysburg Address 1 exemplaire
Minds and Brains: Angels, Humans, and Brutes 1 exemplaire
Adler on Salesmanship: The Art of Persuasion 1 exemplaire
Adult Education: The Task of a Lifetime 1 exemplaire
The Future of Democracy 1 exemplaire
A Disputation on the Future of Democracy 1 exemplaire
Great books discussions 1 exemplaire
Lessson in Criticism 1 exemplaire
Saint Thomas and the Gentiles, Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University (2021) 1 exemplaire
The Great ideas A Syntopicon of Great books of the Western World, Volume 2: Man to World (Great Books of the Western… 1 exemplaire
Great books of the Western world - Vol. 50 - Marx 1 exemplaire
The great ideas today : 1979 1 exemplaire
Como Falar, Como Ouvir 1 exemplaire
THE SYNTOPICON: AN INDEX TO THE GREAT IDEAS 1 exemplaire
Can Adults Think? 1 exemplaire
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Ten 1 exemplaire
How to Mark a Book 1 exemplaire
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Fifteen 1 exemplaire
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Fourteen 1 exemplaire
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Thirteen 1 exemplaire
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Twelve 1 exemplaire
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Eleven 1 exemplaire
If You Want a Lecturer 1 exemplaire
God Exists: No Doubt About It 1 exemplaire
Ideological Warfare... Who's Winning? 1 exemplaire
Max Meets Mortimer 1 exemplaire
Education and Democracy-02-Adler 1 exemplaire
Beauty-03-Adler 1 exemplaire
Beauty-02-Adler 1 exemplaire
Beauty-01-Adler 1 exemplaire
Tradition and Novelty in Education 1 exemplaire
The Necessity of Government 1 exemplaire
Tolstoy - Vol 51/54 1 exemplaire
Gibbon - Vol 40/54 1 exemplaire
Gibbon - Vol 41/54 1 exemplaire
Kant - Vol 42/54 1 exemplaire
Hegel - Vol 46/54 1 exemplaire
Goethe - Vol 47/54 1 exemplaire
Melville - Vol 48/54 1 exemplaire
Darwin - Vol 49/54 1 exemplaire
Marx, Engels - Vol 50/54 1 exemplaire
Dostoevsky - Vol 52/54 1 exemplaire
Fielding - Vol 37/54 1 exemplaire
Freud - Vol 54/54 1 exemplaire
The Great Conversation - vol 1/54 1 exemplaire
Thr Great Conversation - vol 1/54 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas I 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas II 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas III 1 exemplaire
Montesquieu, Rousseau - Vol 38/54 1 exemplaire
Newton, Huygens - Vol 34/54 1 exemplaire
The Annals of America, Vols. 1-9 1 exemplaire
The Five Freedoms 1 exemplaire
Manual for Discussion Leaders: Preliminary Draft for Use in Great Books Community Groups (1946) 1 exemplaire
Philosophy: The Great Books series 1 exemplaire
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Os Anjos e nós 1 exemplaire
The Chicago School 1 exemplaire
THE GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM, SET OF SIX BOOKS (FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS-IMAGINATIVE ITERATURE 1-AN INTRODUCTION… (1958) 1 exemplaire
Ten Philosophical Mistakes 1 exemplaire
The Syntopicon. An Index to the Great Ideas Volumes 1 & 2 (Great Books of the Western World 1 & 2) 1 exemplaire
Pascal - Vol 33/54 1 exemplaire
Syntopicon I - vol 2/54 1 exemplaire
Syntopicon II - vol 3/54 1 exemplaire
Homer - vol 4/54 - Great Books 1 exemplaire
Herodotus, Thucydides - vol 6/54 1 exemplaire
Plato - vol 7/54 1 exemplaire
Plotinus - vol 17/54 1 exemplaire
Shakespeare - Vol. 26/54 1 exemplaire
Shakespeare - Vol 27/54 1 exemplaire
35 important books by Mortimer J. Adler 1 exemplaire
Ten Philsophical Mistakes 1 exemplaire
annals of america 1 exemplaire
The Britannica Library of Great Books of the Western World - The History of Herodotus and Thucydides: The History of… 1 exemplaire
Great Books of the Western World. Volume 15. Ptolemy Copernicus Kepler 1992 Third Printing 1 exemplaire
Great Books Newton Huygens #34 1 exemplaire
The Syntopicon II : an index to the great ideas 1 exemplaire
The Worlds of Aristotle, volume II 1 exemplaire
Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus 1 exemplaire
Great Ideas: Great Thinkers 1 exemplaire
Program Guide to the Great Books 1 exemplaire
Mortimer Adler 1 exemplaire
How to Speak How to Work 1 exemplaire
Las condiciones de la filosofía 1 exemplaire
Como ler um livro 1 exemplaire
The History of Herodotus & the History of the Peloponnesian War (Great Books of the Western World, Volume 6) 1 exemplaire
Dez Erros Filosóficos 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today - 2 1 exemplaire
Great Books 1 1 exemplaire
Great Books 2 1 exemplaire
Great Books 3 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today: 1984 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today - 3 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today - 4 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today - 5 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today - 6 1 exemplaire
The Great Ideas Today - 7 1 exemplaire
Volume 14 - of Great Books of the Western World - (Tacitus The Annals and the Histories) 1 exemplaire
Great books of the Western World The Britannica Library Chaucer-Troilus And Cressida-The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
Great books of the Western World The Britannica Library Darwin-The Origin of Species-The Descent of Man 1 exemplaire
The Annals of America [the bicentennial edition] : [1776-1976] Vol. 1 1493-1754 : discovering a new world 1 exemplaire
The Idea of Freedom Two volume set 1 exemplaire
THE SYNTOPICON: AN INDEX TO THE GREAT IDEA II 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Adler, Mortimer J.
- Nom légal
- Adler, Mortimer Jerome
- Date de naissance
- 1902-12-28
- Date de décès
- 2001-06-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- San Mateo, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
San Mateo, California, USA - Études
- Columbia University (BA | 1984)
Columbia University (PhD | 1928 | psychology) - Professions
- secretary (New York Sun)
instructor (Columbia University)
director (Institute for Philosophical Research)
philosopher (Aristotelian)
editor (Encyclopædia Britannica)
honorary chairman (Center for the Study of Great Ideas) (tout afficher 9)
copy boy (New York Sun)
board chairman (Encylopaedia Britannica)
ethicist - Organisations
- Columbia University
Great Books Foundation
Institue for Philosophical Research (founder)
Center for the Study of Great Ideas (co-founder)
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Aspen Institute (tout afficher 7)
St John's College - Prix et distinctions
- Charles Frankel Prize (1990)
- Courte biographie
- Mortimer J. Adler was the author of popular and bestselling books that introduced moral and philosophic ideas to many new readers. He was a co-founder of the "Great Books of the Western World" program and Foundation.
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- Œuvres
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- 35
- Membres
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- Popularité
- #1,032
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
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- ISBN
- 241
- Langues
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- Favoris
- 23
Strong points
1. A clear and articulate method for analytical reading
2. Addressing the issue of syntopical reading quite well
3. Spurs the readers to aim at top quality in their reading
Weak points
1. Does not cover many issues about reading with sufficient depth
2. A lot is dedicated to analytical reading of argumentative texts, but is that useful?
3. Pompous style… (plus d'informations)