How to read book by mortimer j adler7/5/2023 ![]() While Adler was the sole author behind the original and first revised edition of How to Read a Book (1940, 1967), he was joined by fellow perennial advocate and Institute for Philosophical Research associate Charles Van Doren (Ph.D., English, Columbia University) for the book’s third and still-most recent edition (1972 2014). He is best known for both his advocacy of “educational perennialism,” an academic paradigm based on what is perceived to be universal learning-essentials common to all human beings, as well as serving as chief architect behind the celebrated publishing monument-the Great Books of the Western World series (54 vols). ![]() ![]() Adler (Ph.D., Philosophy, Columbia University) taught briefly at his alma mater before accepting a professorship at the University of Chicago in 1930, teaching Philosophy of Law. ![]()
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