biography
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Adler, Mortimer J(erome)
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| lived:
| (1902–2001)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and writer, born in New York City, USA. He taught at the University of Chicago (1930–52), where in 1946 he helped design the Great Books programme, and directed the Institute for Philosophical Research from 1952. He popularized the great ideas of Western civilization in such works as Great Books of the Western World (54 vols, 1954, revised 1990), How to Read a Book (1940, revised 1972), and Six Great Ideas (1981). |
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