Chronicles of Higher Education, July 12, 2002
Left Hook, Right Hook: the Rules of Engagement
By CHRISTOPHER PHELPS
It is August, a brilliant, sunny California morning. I am seated at a
table
reading correspondence from the Marxist years of the pragmatist
philosopher
Sidney Hook.
My
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December 17, 2001
Embarrassing early books
Authors change course: Hook embraced communism, then
anti-Stalinism
Jeet Heer
National Post
During the Reagan presidency, the philosopher Sidney
Hook was
Just to stir up some discussion, Carl Manzani and others warn against American
pragmatism. Some call pragmatism another name form of opportunism. Maurice
Cornforth termed pragmatism a form of positivism. Hook's sad career seems some
evidence for support of the critrique of pragmatism, since
