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Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom

The Essential Essays

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Sidney Hook is arguably America's most controversial intellectual. After beginning his career as this nation's foremost Marxist scholar, he became in the late 1930s the leading anticommunist intellectual and defender of freedom against all forms of totalitarianism. This volume collects twenty-five of Hook's most incisive essays in political philosophy. Clustered into five main sections, the essays discuss pragmatism and naturalism, Marx and Marxism, Democratic theory and practice, and the defense of a free society.In an insightful introduction, editors Talisse and Tempio argue that underlying the wide range of subjects covered by Hook was his… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Talisse, Robert B. / Tempio, Robert / Ryan, Alan
  • ISBN: 978-1-59102-022-6
  • EAN: 9781591020226
  • Produktnummer: 9860718
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 420 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.Robert Talisse (Nashville, TN) is assistant professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of On Dewey and co-editor of Dewey's Logical Theory.Robert Tempio (New York, NY) works in the editorial division of Oxford University Press and is a graduate student in philosophy at the City University of New York.

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