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Democracy, Communism and the Cold War
Sidney Hook (1902-1989) is known for his participation in the public debates about communism, the Soviet Union and the Cold War. These letters, drawn ...
Probes how heroes influence the course of history....
The Essential Essays
Sidney Hook is arguably America's most controversial intellectual. After beginning his career as this nation's foremost Marxist scholar, he became in ...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressโs mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century
One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century details the events of his career and describes meetings with people who have shaped ...
Symposium, Edited by Sidney Hook
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Challenges liberals and conservatives alike, as Hook pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and th...
Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx
In this brilliant work, first published in 1936, Sydney Hook seeks to resolve one of the classic problems of European intellectual history: how the po...
An Intellectual Portrait
Considered by some the most controversial American philosopher of contemporary times, SIDNEY HOOK (1902-1989) was infamous for the wild swing in his p...
Essays discuss freedom, legal rights, the concept of the hero, religion, culture, and the role of government....
This book was in essentials originally delivered as lectures in the Montgomery lectureship on contemporary civilization at the University of Nebraska,...
". . . a remarkable book. . . . A most penetrating study of education." --Saturday Review of Literature ". . . an admirable defense of the critical mi...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
A Symposium, Edited by Sidney Hook
The meticulously edited text published here as the first volยญume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953spans that entire period in De...
A Study in Limitation and Possibility
The interaction of the individual in history and politics has posed major theoretical questions of historical analysis for the past two centuries: is ...
This book records one of the few times in the United States that a distinguished group of psychoanalysts met with an equally distinguished group of ph...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
A Bourgeois Reassessment
For some time there has been no direct critique of Marx's ideas from those who value the position he most harshly attacked, bourgeois capitalism. The ...
The element that unifies this collection of essays, written over the span of a generation, is the commitment to the philosophy of a pragmatism in the ...
A Symposium
Dedicated "to the memory of a Great Adversary," this 1940 work is a startling clarion call to embrace reason and rationality as the only way to solve ...
Determinism and freedom in the age of modern science...
Critical Studies in Democracy, Communism, and Civil Rights
Essays by a contemporary American philosopher on secularism, religion, moral freedom, etc., published in journals covering the years 1934-1960....
His Philosophy of Education and Its Critics
A symposium