Mortimer J. Adler Audio & Video

How to Read a Book, first published in 1940, is now a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best, most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, now completely rewritten and updated.

Drawing on decades of experience as educator and philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler gives the listener a short course in effective communication filled with the Adler wisdom and wit...

The first Firing Line appearance for Professor Adler, a buoyant thinker and teacher. The "great ideas" get into the discussion, but not separately from the way people are, or should be, introduced to them.

Says Mortimer J. Adler, "Almost all of the philosophical truths that I have come to know and understand I have learned from Aristotle."...

At a 1981 seminar Adler conducted, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of six great ideas…

This book’s working subtitle is Basic Errors in Modern Thought, How They Came About, Their Consequences, and How to Avoid Them.

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

Does a piece of visual or musical art have any content? Do the fine arts have anything at all to say about ideas?...

First aired on KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1953 to 1954, Adler’s series offers a synoptical approach to great ideas.

First aired on KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1953 to 1954, Adler’s series offers a synoptical approach to great ideas.