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Chargement... Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiographypar Mortimer J. Adler
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Mortimer Adler's autobiography is a delightful book to read. Who would have thought that this dedicated philosopher, pedagogical scrapper, and preeminent cataloguer of ideas possessed a self-effacing wit and winning charm? He didn't always, it seems, for he began his intellectual career as "an objectionable student, in some respects perhaps repulsive." And it took him most of his life to acquire the "emotional maturity" that has softened him. Adler describes that life with candor, humor, some regrets, much praise of mind, and plenty of detail. His focus on his role in the intellectual and educational history of the last 50 years--from the birth of the great books course at Columbia, through the embattled innovations at the University of Chicago and the expansion of the Great Books idea, to the writing of the Syntopicon, the work of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and the creation of Britannica 3 is endlessly fascinating. Adler displays a greater interest in ideas than in thinkers, believing that ideas must be judged by logic-not by their human origins. But this is not to say he is oblivious of people. In fact, he dismisses all of his philosophical writings prior to those of the last fifteen years, when he began to write for all. And he admits that his own intellectual preoccupations originated in his distinctive temperament: a compulsive organizer and inveterate yea-sayer, how could he have become other than an intrepid encyclopedist and intellectual zealot? This warm-hearted book demonstrates his love of the "Great Books" and what he learned from them and from life. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this autobiography, Adler chronicles more than 50 years of his achievements in education and publishing, discusses the development of the 54-volume set of Great Books of the Western World and details the planning and production of the 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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