Author:Mortimer Adler

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Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902–2001)

An American philosopher and educator, inventor of the Great Ideas

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Books

• Dialectic (1927)
• Art and Prudence; a Study in Practical Philosophy — Copyrighted in the United States until 2033 (1937; renewal R355947)
• What Man Has Made of Man; a Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology — Copyrighted in the United States until 2033 (1937; renewal R355966)
• How to Read a Book — Copyrighted in the United States until 2036 (1940; renewal R409536)
• How to Think about War and Peace — Copyrighted in the United States until 2040 (1944; renewal R505108)

Essays

• "Liberalism and Liberal Education" (July 1939)
• "Two Essays on Docility" (April 1940)
• "This Prewar Generation" (October 1940)
• "Invitation to the Pain of Learning" (February 1941)
• "What Is Basic about English?" (April 1941)
• "The Chicago School (Adler)" (September 1941)
• "Liberal Education—Theory and Practice" (March 1945)
• "Labor, Leisure, and Liberal Education" (October 1951)

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