The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook
By (Author) Gary Bullert
Foreword by Ernest B. Hook
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
16th February 2022
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Social and political philosophy
Political science and theory
191
Physical Properties
Hardback
246
Width 160mm, Height 227mm, Spine 21mm
562g
Description
The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook examines the sixty-year career of one of the foremost public intellectuals in the United States. Sidney Hooks convictions were widely disseminated through books, academic journals, newspapers articles, lectures, and several organizations that he founded. Hooks legacies include being a leading Marxist-Leninist scholar, his long-standing commitment to secular humanism, his legacy as a legendary polemicist, his cultural conservatism if not neoconservatism, and his defense of democracy and John Deweys pragmatic and Cold War liberalism. Bullert concludes that Hooks core philosophy is best typified by his Deweyan pragmatism, vigilant anti-communism, and secular humanism.
Reviews
Gary Bullert's biography of the philosopher and political activist Sidney Hook (1902-1989) is a model of clear, dispassionate writing about a controversial historical figure. For many, Hook seems a contradiction, a relentless anti-Communist who was frequently identified with the right, but also a lifelong socialist.
-- "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture"Author Bio
Gary Bullert is retired professor of Political Science.
