Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom The Essential Essays

Name: Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom The Essential Essays
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ISBN: 9781591020226

ISBN-10: 1591020220

ISBN-13: 9781591020226

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert B. Talisse, Robert Tempio, Alan Ryan, Sidney Hook

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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 defence 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 unwavering commitment to the "method of…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 6.32" wide x 8.98" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Alan Ryan, the former warden of New College, Oxford, has taught political theory at Oxford and Princeton since 1969. His books include "The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill", "Bertrand Russell: A Political Life", "John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism", and "Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education".



Foreword



Editors' Introduction: The Legacy of Sidney Hook



Philosophical Contexts: Pragmatism and Naturalism



Experimental Naturalism



Naturalism and First Principles



Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life



The Place of Reason in an Age of Conflict



Studies in Marx and Marxism



Communism without Dogmas



What Is Living and Dead in Marxism



Karl Marx versus the Communist Movement



The Cult of Revolution



Democratic Theory



Naturalism and Democracy



The Philosophical Heritage of the Atlantic Democracies



Conflicts in Ways of Belief



The Democratic Way of Life



The Ethics of Controversy



The Degradation of the Word



Democratic Practice



Democracy and Social Protest: Neither Blind Obedience nor Uncivil Disobedience



Are There Limits to Freedom of Expression?



The War against the Democratic Process



Education and Creative Intelligence



A Critique of Conservatism



In Defense of a Free Society



Education in Defense of a Free Society



The Principles and Problems of Academic Freedom



In Defense of the Cold War: Neither Red nor Dead



Human Rights and Social Justice



Toward Greater Equality



The Intellectual in America