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Sidney Hook

The Quest for Being

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One of America's best known social and political philosophers, Sidney Hook, compiled this fascinating combination of essays, popular and technical, addressing questions by professionals and lay readers alike.Written between 1934 and 1960, these controversial essays generated heated discussion and polemic, the echoes of which are still being heard. Championing secularism, humanism, and naturalism, Hook eloquently argues against the claim that religious experience and metaphysical insight alone can discover truths about existence and reality that rest outside the domain of scientific method or inquiry.Crucial philosophical questions are discuss… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-87975-700-7
  • EAN: 9780879757007
  • Produktnummer: 9241562
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
  • Seitenangabe: 254 S.

Über den Autor


Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was professor emeritus at New York University and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Among his many books are Convictions; Paradoxes of Freedom; The Quest for Being; Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy; and an autobiography, Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century.

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