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Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography
In this book, 1st published by Macmillan in 1977, Mortimer J. Adler, author of "Ten Philosophical Mistakes", "How to Read a Book" & "Aristotle for Everybody", provides a chronicle of more than 50 years of achievement in the fields of education & publishing. He discusses the development of one of the great publishing ventures of the century--the 54-volume set of "Gr
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Hardcover
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1st
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363 pages
Published
July 1977
by MacMillan Publishing Company (NYC)
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My grandparents and parents were thoroughly middle-class and middle-brow. They grew up when an education was appreciated because it not always freely available or taken for granted. They listened to radio programs and read books by the likes of Mortimer J Adler (1902-2001), Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999), and David Ewen (1907-1985). There are no more "middle-brow intellectuals" in America, except, perhaps, for the likes of Bill Moyers.
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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 re
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I looooooove Adler, but I had to put this book down in the middle of it while he was having his mid-life crisis. The image of him weeping uncontrollably, out-loud in a San Francisco restaurant with no hope in his life was too much. I know that he eventually became a Christian, so there is a happy ending; but I'll have to approach this book at another time.
Good bio of an intellectual life. Very interesting that as he neared his life's end he became a Christian.
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Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American educator, philosopher, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked with Aristotelian and Thomistic thought. He lived for the longest stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo. He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica, and Adler's own Institute for Philosophical Research.
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