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In the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, Philosopher at Large, the author describes his conversion, at eighty-four, to Christianity and his editorial oversight of the controversial second edition of Great Books of the Western World.
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This is the intellectual biography of Mortimer Adler, written at the age of 90. It offers the reader a view of the workings of his mind and of the way his analytical powers have developed and evolved, drawing upon unpublished materials, fugitive papers and material no longer in print. Chapters in "A Second Look in the Rear View Mirror" include "Misimpressions of my Academic Life", "Departure from Academic Life", "Educational Reform", "Editorial Work", "The Aspen Institute", "Teaching and Learning", "The Pursuit of Philosophical Truth", "Religion and Theology" (where the author describes, for the first time, his religious conversion that led to his formal baptism at the age of 84), and "Blessings of Good Fortune".
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