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The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook examines the sixty-year career of one of the foremost public intellectuals in the United States. Sidney Hook’s convictions were widely disseminated through books, academic journals, newspapers articles, lectures, and several organizations that he founded. Hook’s 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 Dewey’s pragmatic and Cold War liberalism. Bullert concludes that Hook’s core philosophy is best typified by his Deweyan pragmatism, vigilant anti-communism, and secular humanism.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Mature Sidney Hook

Chapter 2: Hook, Dewey, and the Committee for Cultural Freedom

Chapter 3: Pragmatic Liberalism and the Crisis of World War II.: Does It Work?

Chapter 4: Sidney Hook’s Cold War Liberalism

Chapter 5: Vietnam: The United States as the “Evil” Empire

Chapter 6: From N.Y.U. to “Retirement” at Stanford

Chapter 7: Pluralism and the Pragmatic Liberal Tradition

Chapter 8: Sidney Hook and Neoconservatism

The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook

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      Publisher Lexington Books
      Published 16 February 2022
      ISBN-13 9781793627483
      978-1793627483
      ISBN-10 1793627487

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook examines the sixty-year career of one of the foremost public intellectuals in the United States. Sidney Hook’s convictions were widely disseminated through books, academic journals, newspapers articles, lectures, and several organizations that he founded. Hook’s 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 Dewey’s pragmatic and Cold War liberalism. Bullert concludes that Hook’s core philosophy is best typified by his Deweyan pragmatism, vigilant anti-communism, and secular humanism.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: The Mature Sidney Hook

      Chapter 2: Hook, Dewey, and the Committee for Cultural Freedom

      Chapter 3: Pragmatic Liberalism and the Crisis of World War II.: Does It Work?

      Chapter 4: Sidney Hook’s Cold War Liberalism

      Chapter 5: Vietnam: The United States as the “Evil” Empire

      Chapter 6: From N.Y.U. to “Retirement” at Stanford

      Chapter 7: Pluralism and the Pragmatic Liberal Tradition

      Chapter 8: Sidney Hook and Neoconservatism

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