Author : Gary B. Bullert
Release : 2022-02-16
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 495/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook by : Gary B. Bullert
Download or read book The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook written by Gary B. Bullert. This book was released on 2022-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.