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When MORTIMER ADLER's Great Books of the Western World made its debut, TIME devoted a cover story to the maverick philosopher, calling his "one of the best minds at large today...
DIED. MORTIMER ADLER, 98, philosopher, educational reformer and author who helped create the Great Books program of learning; in San Mateo, Calif. Guided by the writings of his personal hero, Aristotle, Adler spent most of his life championing his belief in universal values, insisting that all students ought to receive a liberal-arts education with an understanding of that philosophy. He helped revise the core curriculum at the University of Chicago accordingly, and conceived the Great Books program, which is based on 443 classics reprinted in a 54-volume set by Encyclopaedia Britannica. His works include How to Read...
...Adler was a leading expert in the field of psychosomatic syndromes and psychopharmacology. Her particular are of expertise was schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Adler's studies focused on the survivors of a deadly 1942 nightclub fire in Boston and on combat survivors from World...
...Adler was first appointed as a member of the research staff at HMS in 1935. However, she could not receive a post on the regular staff of HMS because of her gender...
...After leaving Harvard in 1944, Adler went to New York University, where she spent the rest of her professional life...