How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner’s Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

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.