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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...
The University also presented a doctorate in music to composer Leon Kirchner, and doctorate in law to philosopher Jürgen Habermas, economist Alice M. Rivlin, commencement speaker Rubin, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 and former Harvard Fellow Richard A. Smith ’46.
German philosopher and social theorist Habermas is a leading representative of the Frankfurt School of theorists and one of the foremost scholars of the 20th century.
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Habermas studied philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn and then worked briefly as an assistant to philosopher Theodor Adorno at the Institute for Social Research, before a long career in philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt.