How to Read a Difficult Book

by Peter A. Redpath

Peter A. Redpath, Ph.D., is retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University, New York, and author/editor/co-editor of seventeen philosophical books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. He is Founder and CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC and former Founder and Chair of the Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom for Holy Apostles College and Seminary (USA). Dr. Redpath is co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and the International Etienne Gilson Society, the Adler-Aquinas Institute, and the Angelicum Academy and Great Books Academy homeschool programs (both founded with the help of Mortimer J. Adler). Former vice president of the American Maritain Association, Dr. Redpath is, also, former executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for Editions Rodopi, B.V., former History of Philosophy and Etienne Gilson special series editor for Rodopi; and is currently a member of the editorial board of Brill's Philosophy and Religion (PAR) series.

Genres: Philosophy

132 pages, Paperback

Published May 13, 2021

Reviews

[Dvdlynch · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you are going to teach others to read a book it is crucial that you 1) have an editor and 2) do more than one draft.

[Nzcgzmt · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is as close as it gets to the definition of failure. Much is said; yet nothing is said. It is both a crude attempt at philosophy, and an unbearable guide to reading.

[Hashem Arnaout · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main and maybe only thing I benefitted from this book was that it made me realize I wasted my time reading it and that to learn reading anything difficult is just to read.