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Category:	Modern Literature
Name:	Mortimer Jerome Adler
Birth Year:	1902
Death Year:	2001
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Mortimer Adler! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Dr. Adler was Founder and Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Editor in Chief of the Great Books of the Western World and A Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas, Editor of The Great Ideas Today (all published by Encyclopaedia Britannica), Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Institute, past Instructor at Columbia University, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Honorary Chairman and Co-Founder (with Max Weismann) of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas and Editor in Chief of Philosophy is Everybody's Business. [Adapted from Centre for the Study of Great Ideas] The Great Books: Mortimer Jerome Adler Please browse our Amazon list of titles by or about Mortimer Jerome Adler. For rare and hard to find titles we recommend our Alibris list of titles by or about Mortimer Jerome Adler. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.