• Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher of pragmatism known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the...
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    could not help but uncover something about one's own true nature. As Sidney Hook notes, a common misinterpretation of the theory is that "all factors...
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  • lawyer and politician Peter Hook (born 1956) English musician Sidney Hook (1902–1989), American pragmatic philosopher Ted Hook (1910–1990), Australian public...
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    intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Zellig Harris, and Sidney Hook. A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin...
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  • 72–9. "A Comment on Toulmin," in Dimensions Of Mind: A Symposium ed. Sidney Hook (1960) “The Deductive Model and Its Qualifications,” in Induction: Some...
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  • "the American Bloomsbury".[citation needed] Some, including Kristol, Sidney Hook, and Norman Podhoretz, later became key figures in the development of...
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    intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Zellig Harris, and Sidney Hook signed an open letter to The New York Times. The letter condemned Herut...
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  • 283-page anti-communist book by New York University philosophy professor Sidney Hook, which John Day Company, published in May 1953, about conflicts between...
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  • non-governmental organizations, particularly in foreign policy. Philosopher Sidney Hook was a public intellectual. Writing after the death of Tom Kahn, Ben Wattenberg...
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  • siècle. Échanges, représentations, comparisons. Créaphis. pp. 21–47. Cf., Sidney Hook, Marx and the Marxists (Princeton: Van Nostrand 1955) at 13. Marx, Karl...
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  • Press, 1992 (There are 748 copies in WorldCat libraries) Letters of Sidney Hook Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War, M.E. Sharpe, 1995 We Are Many:...
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    Press, 1972. Sidney Hook. Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the Twentieth Century. Harper & Row, 1987. Christopher Phelps. Young Sidney Hook. Cornell University...
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    Neopragmatist thinkers who are more loyal to classical pragmatism include Sidney Hook and Susan Haack (known for the theory of foundherentism). Many pragmatist...
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    c2009. Schapiro wrote some articles under assumed names. "The Nerve of Sidney Hook" (as "David Merian") Partisan Review (1943) Romanesque architectural...
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    Paul Feldman Sandra Feldman Carl Gershman Albert Glotzer Norman Hill Sidney Hook Tom Kahn Penn Kemble A. Philip Randolph Bayard Rustin August Tyler Charles...
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  • isolated individual but the creative freedom of groups." The philosopher Sidney Hook described the work as a philosophical justification for widespread human...
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  • acquaintances, and corresponded with New York intellectuals such as philosopher Sidney Hook and art historian Meyer Schapiro. He died at home in New York City at...
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    New Intellectual, was similar to that for Atlas Shrugged. Philosopher Sidney Hook likened her certainty to "the way philosophy is written in the Soviet...
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  • that it had "irresistible pace of skill and narrative". Philosopher Sidney Hook said that it would "succeed in shocking and challenging the complacent...
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    the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, the Sidney Hook Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Bradley Prize for...
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    Novatore, Emma Goldman, Georg Brandes, John Cowper Powys, Martin Buber, Sidney Hook, Robert Anton Wilson, Horst Matthai, Frank Brand, Marcel Duchamp, several...
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  • Around the same time as Popper's critique was published, philosopher Sidney Hook discussed the "sense and nonsense in dialectic" and rejected two conceptions...
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    of the year. Named for philosopher Sidney Hook and originally called "The Hookies", the honor was renamed "The Sidney Awards" in 2005. The awards are presented...
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  • Franz Borkenau (member of the Communist Party of Austria until 1929), Sidney Hook (Communist fellow traveler in the 1920s); Arthur Koestler (member of...
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    terminology as "stop denying being-for-death"). The American philosopher Sidney Hook criticized Heidegger's view of death anxiety in his review of Heidegger's...
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    Senator Dianne Feinstein (2018) Speakers have included: Philosopher Sidney Hook (1978) CIA Director William J. Casey (1984) Journalist John O'Sullivan...
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    of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as "a terrorist, right-wing...
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    Herman Eisen; Hayim Fineman; M. Gallen; H.H. Harris; Zellig Harris; Sidney Hook; Fred Karush; Bruria Kaufman; Irma L. Lindheim; Nahman Maisel; Seymour...
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  • Moore in the Works of E. M. Forster," New Literary History (2007) "Sidney Hook," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008) Books Edited or Introduced:...
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    campaigning trip. During his visit, a letter signed by Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, Hannah Arendt, and other prominent Americans and several rabbis was...
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