Name: how to speak, how to listen
SKU: 1528851
Price: 394.00 ZAR
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Author: Mortimer J. Adler
ISBN: 9780684846477

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mortimer J. Adler

Publisher

Touchstone Books

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.1x1.9 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0684846470

ISBN13

9780684846477

Synopsis "how to speak, how to listen"

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively. With over half a million copies in print of his "living classic" How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book. In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.

Mortimer J. Adler

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Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) was an American philosopher, educator, and editor, noted for his work in promoting liberal education and the study of the great classics of philosophy. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1928 and taught jurisprudence at the University of Chicago starting in 1930. Along with Robert M. Hutchins, he edited the series Great Books of the Western World in 1952.

Among his most influential works are How to Read a Book (1940), How to Think About God (1980), and Six Great Ideas (1981), all within the realm of philosophy and education. For his contributions to thought and education, he received the National Humanities Medal in 1976 and the Charles Frankel Prize in 1990.

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