Gary Bullert

The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook

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Produktbeschreibung

Sidney Hook's controversial career as a public intellectual grounded in pragmatic liberalism solidified him as the leading liberal critic of liberalism. Hook forthrightly advocated American democratic principles against a legion of attackers. The controversies he addressed are very much at the center of public life today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781793627483
• ISBN-10: 1793627487
• Artikelnr.: 62475524

Autorenporträt

By Gary Bullert - Foreword by Ernest B. Hook

Inhaltsangabe

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