Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and FreedomSidney Hook

Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom

Name: Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom
ISBN: 9781591020226

Sidney Hook · 2002

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"Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom collects twenty-five of Hook's most incisive essays in political philosophy, written throughout his lengthy career. Clustered into five main sections, the essays discuss pragmatism and naturalism, Marx and Marxism, democratic theory, democratic practice, and the defense of a free society."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: Were the phrase not so encrusted with misleading associations, I should call my philosophy "dialectical materialism"; materialism, because its explanations make no appeal to entities or processes which are not empirically verifiable by scientific method or logically inferrible from experienced data; dialectical, because it holds (a) that there is an implied temporal reference in every description