Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001)
Autor/a de How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Mortimer J. Adler
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Conversation (1952) — Editor — 537 exemplars
How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization (2000) 397 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Man - World (1952) — Editor — 340 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Love (1952) — Editor — 300 exemplars
Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements and Comments on Man and His Institutions by… (1977) — Editor — 112 exemplars
Great Ideas Program Volume 02: The Development of Political Theory and Government (1959) 112 exemplars
A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large (1992) 54 exemplars
The Annals of America Volume 04 - 1797-1820 Domestic Expansion & Foreign Entanglements (1968) 42 exemplars
The Annals of America Volume 10 - 1866-1883 Reconstruction and Industrialization (1968) 39 exemplars
Great Ideas Program Volume 01: Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education (1959) 36 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 43: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (1990) — Editor — 27 exemplars
The conditions of philosophy; its checkered past, its present disorder, and its future promise (1965) 27 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 55: 20th Century Philosophy and Religion (1990) 25 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 59: 20th Century Imaginative Literature I (1994) 24 exemplars
How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings and Thoughts About God (2010) 23 exemplars
The Annals of America Volume 21 - 1977-1986 Opportunities and Problems at Home and Abroad (1976) 22 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 60: 20th Century Imaginative Literature II (1990) 20 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Immortality - Punishment (1990) 18 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Idea (1990) 18 exemplars
The American testament: For the Institute for Philosophical Research and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (1975) 9 exemplars
How to Read a Book {video} — Autor — 9 exemplars
Family participation plan for reading and discussing the Great books of the Western World (The Great ideas program) (1959) 9 exemplars
Freedom: A Study of the Development of the Concept in the English and American Traditions of Philosophy (1968) 8 exemplars
The Idea of Freedom Volume 2: A Dialectical Examination of the Controversies About Freedom (1961) 5 exemplars
The Great Conversation 4 exemplars
Great Books of the Western World [1988 Volume 5, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes] 3 exemplars
Problems for Thomists; the problem of species 3 exemplars
Volume 52 Dostoevsky-1952 edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., (Great Books of the Western World, 52) 3 exemplars
Annals of America Volume 20: 1974--1976 The Challenge of Interdependence (The Annals of America, Volume 20) 3 exemplars
Great books of the Western world : a general introduction to the great books and to a liberal education 3 exemplars
The great ideas programme 2 exemplars
Democracy Begins at Home 2 exemplars
Las Condiciones de la filosofía : su mudable pasado, su desorden presente y su promesa futura (1995) 2 exemplars
THE GREAT IDEAS, A SYNTOPICON OF GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, VOLUME I,ANGEL TO LOVE, 1977 2 exemplars
Annals of American history 2 exemplars
Solution of the Problem of Species 2 exemplars
Education and Democracy 2 exemplars
A Disputation on the Future of Democracy 1 exemplars
The Syntopicon : an index to the great books 1 exemplars
Great books discussions 1 exemplars
The Future of Democracy 1 exemplars
Saint Thomas and the Gentiles, Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University (2021) 1 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon III: Quality - World 1 exemplars
Adler on Salesmanship: The Art of Persuasion 1 exemplars
The great ideas today : 1979 1 exemplars
Como Falar, Como Ouvir 1 exemplars
THE SYNTOPICON: AN INDEX TO THE GREAT IDEAS 1 exemplars
Adult Education: The Task of a Lifetime 1 exemplars
Hard Reading Made Easy 1 exemplars
Minds and Brains: Angels, Humans, and Brutes 1 exemplars
Max Meets Mortimer 1 exemplars
How to Mark a Book 1 exemplars
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Fifteen 1 exemplars
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Fourteen 1 exemplars
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Thirteen 1 exemplars
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Twelve 1 exemplars
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Eleven 1 exemplars
Intellect: Mind Over Matter, Chapter Ten 1 exemplars
If You Want a Lecturer 1 exemplars
Ideological Warfare... Who's Winning? 1 exemplars
Reflections: The Gettysburg Address 1 exemplars
Education and Democracy-02-Adler 1 exemplars
Beauty-03-Adler 1 exemplars
Beauty-02-Adler 1 exemplars
Beauty-01-Adler 1 exemplars
Tradition and Novelty in Education 1 exemplars
The Necessity of Government 1 exemplars
God Exists: No Doubt About It 1 exemplars
Can Adults Think? 1 exemplars
Lessson in Criticism 1 exemplars
Fundamental Psychological Ideas 1 exemplars
Great books of the Western World The Britannica Library Chaucer-Troilus And Cressida-The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplars
annals of america 1 exemplars
Marx, Engels - Vol 50/54 1 exemplars
Montesquieu, Rousseau - Vol 38/54 1 exemplars
Gibbon - Vol 40/54 1 exemplars
Gibbon - Vol 41/54 1 exemplars
Kant - Vol 42/54 1 exemplars
Hegel - Vol 46/54 1 exemplars
Goethe - Vol 47/54 1 exemplars
Melville - Vol 48/54 1 exemplars
Darwin - Vol 49/54 1 exemplars
Tolstoy - Vol 51/54 1 exemplars
Newton, Huygens - Vol 34/54 1 exemplars
Dostoevsky - Vol 52/54 1 exemplars
Freud - Vol 54/54 1 exemplars
The Great Conversation - vol 1/54 1 exemplars
Thr Great Conversation - vol 1/54 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas I 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas II 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas III 1 exemplars
Fielding - Vol 37/54 1 exemplars
Pascal - Vol 33/54 1 exemplars
35 important books by Mortimer J. Adler 1 exemplars
Ten Philosophical Mistakes 1 exemplars
The Five Freedoms 1 exemplars
Manual for Discussion Leaders: Preliminary Draft for Use in Great Books Community Groups (1946) 1 exemplars
Philosophy: The Great Books series 1 exemplars
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 2 1 exemplars
Os Anjos e nós 1 exemplars
The Chicago School 1 exemplars
THE GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM, SET OF SIX BOOKS (FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS-IMAGINATIVE ITERATURE 1-AN INTRODUCTION… (1958) 1 exemplars
Shakespeare - Vol 27/54 1 exemplars
The Syntopicon. An Index to the Great Ideas Volumes 1 & 2 (Great Books of the Western World 1 & 2) 1 exemplars
Syntopicon I - vol 2/54 1 exemplars
Syntopicon II - vol 3/54 1 exemplars
Homer - vol 4/54 - Great Books 1 exemplars
Herodotus, Thucydides - vol 6/54 1 exemplars
Plato - vol 7/54 1 exemplars
Plotinus - vol 17/54 1 exemplars
Shakespeare - Vol. 26/54 1 exemplars
The Annals of America, Vols. 1-9 1 exemplars
Como ler um livro 1 exemplars
Great Books of the Western World. Volume 15. Ptolemy Copernicus Kepler 1992 Third Printing 1 exemplars
Great Books Newton Huygens #34 1 exemplars
The Syntopicon II : an index to the great ideas 1 exemplars
The History of Herodotus & the History of the Peloponnesian War (Great Books of the Western World, Volume 6) 1 exemplars
The Worlds of Aristotle, volume II 1 exemplars
Great Books of the Western World Volume 24 1 exemplars
Great Ideas: Great Thinkers 1 exemplars
Program Guide to the Great Books 1 exemplars
Mortimer Adler 1 exemplars
How to Speak How to Work 1 exemplars
Las condiciones de la filosofía 1 exemplars
Ten Philsophical Mistakes 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 1 exemplars
Dez Erros Filosóficos 1 exemplars
Great Books 1 1 exemplars
Great Books 2 1 exemplars
Great Books 3 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 2 1 exemplars
The Idea of Freedom Two volume set 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 3 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 4 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 5 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 6 1 exemplars
The Great Ideas Today - 7 1 exemplars
Volume 14 - of Great Books of the Western World - (Tacitus The Annals and the Histories) 1 exemplars
Great books of the Western World The Britannica Library Darwin-The Origin of Species-The Descent of Man 1 exemplars
The Annals of America [the bicentennial edition] : [1776-1976] Vol. 1 1493-1754 : discovering a new world 1 exemplars
THE SYNTOPICON: AN INDEX TO THE GREAT IDEA II 1 exemplars
Obres associades
La Riquesa de les nacions : indagació sobre la naturalesa i les causes (1776) — Editor, algunes edicions — 6,061 exemplars
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes (1952) — Editor — 474 exemplars
Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius (1952) — Editor, algunes edicions — 330 exemplars
Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers (1993) — Col·laborador — 240 exemplars
Gateway to the Great Books: Volume 1, Introduction & Syntopical Guide (1963) — Editor — 68 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Col·laborador — 40 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus (1991) — Editor, algunes edicions; Editor — 21 exemplars
The Annals of America Volume 20 - 1974-1976 The Challenge of Interdependence (1976) — Editor, algunes edicions — 20 exemplars
Reading in English for Students of English as a Second Language (1961) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Apollonius of Perga, vol 11, Great Books of the Western World (1952) — Editor, algunes edicions — 4 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Adler, Mortimer J.
- Nom oficial
- Adler, Mortimer Jerome
- Data de naixement
- 1902-12-28
- Data de defunció
- 2001-06-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- San Mateo, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
San Mateo, California, USA - Educació
- 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) (mostra-les totes 9)
copy boy (New York Sun)
board chairman (Encylopaedia Britannica)
ethicist - Organitzacions
- 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 (mostra-les totes 7)
St John's College - Premis i honors
- Charles Frankel Prize (1990)
- Biografia breu
- 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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- Obres
- 304
- També de
- 35
- Membres
- 20,814
- Popularitat
- #1,039
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 168
- ISBN
- 240
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 23
The answer itself reveals that the said title is actually a bit misleading. What the author means by "read" is not its meaning in a general sense, but a specific kind of it, which, if I try to rename the title of this book, it would be: "How to learn something from an expository book (and make sure you really understand it)".
Some readers, who expecting a more general or leisure type of reading, would feel being deceived; but then, such readers are unlikely to have interest in a book titled "How to Read a Book" in the first place. This is a book for those who want to read seriously--readers who often read a book and after which felt that the book itself still have more to say; or those who struggles to understand a certain difficult read.
The book itself is divided into two main parts. In the first part, the author gives a set of general "rules" that the readers have to follow in order to meet the objective of "mastering" the reading skill. The second part goes into explaining different methods of reading specific kind of books, such as science and history.
The general rules itself are separated into 3 levels, in which the author wants the readers to follow in orderly manner. The first part is called "Inspectional Reading", which purpose is to make the readers know what to expect from a book before a "real" reading takes place. Then followed by the next step, called "Analytical Reding". This is where the "real" reading occurs. In this kind of reading, Adler thinks that the readers should treat the process like a discourse with the book's author. The last step is called "Syntopical Reading". Unlike the former two, this type of reading is a special case applied only when the a reader wants to know a certain topic or subject which requires several books to study.
Some people might get overwhelmed by these rules, even say that they are overly unecessary and ended up hating the activity of reading itself. However, Adler emphasized in this book that these rules aren't supposed to be applied to all kinds of books. Some aren't worth youer time and effort to apply all of these rules when reading them. This is a key point which I think should be noted for the readers of this book.
I find in the second part, where Adler categorizes different rules for specific books, are interesting. My favorites are the parts about Philosophy and Science. In each of these sections, He explain what makes certain kind of books requires different kind of reading. He also gave his perspective and little bit of historical contexts about each of these book types, and why these rules will helps us reads the book better. There are also chapter about novels and poetry where Charles van Doren, Adler's co-author takes his seat of giving his expertise.
In the Appendix of the book, the authors gave us a list of books that they thinks are essentials book to read, the books where the special reading skill are worth to be applied to. There are also exercises to test of what we've learned from this book. The test will gave the readers a test to reads, and requires us to apply the rules from this book to answer.
So far, my only critic is the book's writing style that feels outdated and rigid, especially for today's people. However, I think the book itself delivers its objective. Reading difficult books is hard, and sometimes we gave up halfway. So does the skills required to overcome it. Readers who have patience and diligence of following the rules this books taught will, in my opinion, have their time and effort being paid and rewarded in the end.… (més)