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Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays
Sidney Hook on Pragmatism Democracy and Freedom The Essential Essays Author:Sidney Hook As the essays reprinted here show, Hook spoke neither more nor less than the truth when he said later in life that he had never undergone a political change of mind, that he remained a social democrat, and that he was committed to economic as well as political democracy. . . . Hook's politics were, if one might risk a paradox, a street fighter's... more » version of Dewey's pragmatism. . . . The essays here, now that they can be read independently of the political conflicts that provoked them in the last half-century between 1930 and 1985, reveal that the philosophical Hook was alive and well alongside the street-fighting Hook throughout those years. It is good to see him more clearly now that the dust has settled. -- from the Foreword by Alan Ryan« less