Has it ever happened to you: you read a book with interest, but after a while you could not clearly tell what it was about? And every time you re-read it, you are surprised to discover something new in it. Bad memory? Not at all, you just can’t read.
Has it ever happened to you: you read a book with interest, but after a while you could not clearly tell what it was about? And every time you re-read it, you are surprised to discover something new in it. Bad memory? Not at all, you just can’t read. Is it hard to believe? Then flip through the guide of the American philosopher, editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Mortimer Adler (1902-2002), who devoted his whole life to books. First, Adler very convincingly argues that we only think that we can read, and then lays out the rules that will help us learn to do it «for real», actively. Of course, in the first place, he means reading «teaching and informing» literature (books on philosophy, theology, natural sciences, mathematics, history, sociology), and not fiction («enjoying»). However, for the development of the latter, he also has his own rules and advice. But the main value is the list of great books of all times placed at the end of the edition, each line of which is a «valuable investment of time and energy.» The best exercise material!
MANN, IVANOV AND FERBER, 344 p.