Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-02-500340-8
Adler passionately believes that most people, even those with college degrees, have not really acquired the skills necessary to explore the world of ideas. To document his argument that people are not systematically educated and that...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author Collier Books $8.95 (362p) ISBN 978-0-02-030175-2
A founder of the ``great books'' movement, Adler presents a collection of essays that span a half century. ``As philosopher, humanistic teacher and educational pioneer, Adler is well viewed in these essays that contribute sound judgment to the...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-02-500350-7
In this provocative essay Adler ( A Guidebook to Learning , etc.), chairman of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia Britannica , among other distinguished positions, considers intellect as the quality separating humans from animals, who possess...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-02-500574-7
Adler's central thesis, in this concise, lucid survey, is that philosophy not only ranks on a par with science as a means to knowledge, but also claims superiority over science in certain areas, for example, in telling us what ends we ought to...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $19.95 (362p) ISBN 978-0-02-500551-8
A founder of the ``great books'' movement, Adler ( How to Read a Book ) opens this collection of his essays that span a half century with a stinging rebuke to The Closing of the American Mind , Allan Bloom's pessimistic appraisal of today's colleges.
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author Scribner Book Company $20.88 (176p) ISBN 978-0-02-500225-8
In this parochial, dogmatic essay, philosopher Adler ( Six Great Ideas ) argues that pluralism, while desirable in matters of taste, has no place in the realm of truth. Arguing that religious beliefs, even if beyond proof, ought to obey the logic of
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $21.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-02-500561-7
In six didactic essays dedicated to Mikhail Gorbachev, popular philosopher Adler ( Truth in Religion ) examines the spread of capitalism-based constitutional democracy along with the rise of totalitarian communism and its subsequent fall-- due, he...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-02-500281-4
Adler, author of The Dialectic of Morals and America's philosopher for everyman, presents a thorough study of morality in the modern age, examining ``real'' and ``apparent'' good (defined respectively as needs and wants) and ``right'' versus ``wrong'
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A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large
Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $23 (322p) ISBN 978-0-02-500571-6
Satisfaction with his continued intellectual progress prompted this sequel to A Philosopher at Large , the autobiography Adler published in 1977, when he was 75 years old. A force in educational reforms, Adler appeals to the culturally fluent,...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15 (148p) ISBN 978-0-02-500243-2
Adler and Robert Hutchins originated the Great Books program at the University of Chicago in the 1940s. Based on readings in classic works of literature and philosophy, Great Books seminars focused on discussions of such ideas as love, war and peace,
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Author, Max Weismann, Editor Open Court Publishing Company $29.95 (530p) ISBN 978-0-8126-9412-3
Decades before Allan Bloom famously attacked multicultural education in The Closing of the American Mind (1988), there was Mortimer Adler. A university-trained philosopher, Adler (b. 1902) is the controversy-prone inventor of Great Books-driven...
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