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9781591020226 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom

  • The Essential Essays
  • Sidney Hook is arguably America's most controversial intellectual. This volume collects twenty-five of Hook's essays in political philosophy. Clustered into five main sections, the essays discuss pragmatism and naturalism, Marx and Marxism, Democratic theory and practice, and the defence of a free society.
  • ISBN-13: 9781591020226 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
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  • Local release date: 01/10/2002
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  • Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]
9781573928823 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx

  • A Revolutionary Interpretation
  • Published in 1933, at a time of widespread unemployment and bank failures. By 'revolutionary interpretation', this book meant quite literally that Marx's main objective was to stimulate revolutionary opposition to class society. It also describes Marx as a thinker and a fighter for freedom.
  • ISBN-13: 9781573928823 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 01/12/2002
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  • Categories: Marxism & Communism [JPFC]
9780879759858 Academic Inspection Copy
  • John Dewey

  • Discusses the leading philosophical ideas of the author's mentor to highlight John Dewey's central themes, their implications, and the relevance of his vision to the problems of American culture. This biography contains Dewey's thoughts on philosophy and culture; truth; logic and action; body, mind, and behaviour; standards, ends, and means.
  • ISBN-13: 9780879759858 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 30/08/1995
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  • Categories: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]
  • The Quest for Being

  • A collection of essays, which argue against the claim that religious experience and metaphysical insight alone can discover truths about existence and reality that rest outside the domain of scientific method or inquiry.
  • ISBN-13: 9780879757007 (Paperback)
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    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
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  • Local release date: 29/02/1992
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  • Categories: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]USA [1KBB]
  • Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy

  • Offers a critique of "scientifically inadequate ways of belief". Reviewing the powerful ideas of Christianity, mythology, Marxism, nationalism, democracy, and other belief systems, the author remains firm in his conviction that no such system can long survive if it resists the rational dictate of true scientific method.
  • ISBN-13: 9780879756727 (Paperback)
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  • Local release date: 30/07/1991
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  • Categories: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]
9780879754730 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Convictions

  • Pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and the separation of ethical behaviour from religious belief.
  • ISBN-13: 9780879754730 (Hardback)
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    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
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  • Local release date: 01/03/1990
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  • The Paradoxes of Freedom

  • Explores topics such as the nature and extent of human freedom, the Bill of Rights, judicial review as it pertains to constitutional interpretation and the balance of powers among the three branches of government, censorship, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and social justice.
  • ISBN-13: 9780879754105 (Paperback)
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  • Local release date: 30/11/1987
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  • Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]
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