Sidney Hook

1902-1989

Affiliations

• Committee for Cultural Freedom | Congress for Cultural Freedom | Social Democrats USA | Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America | University Centers for Rational Alternatives - late 1960s |

Publications and resources

Books

• 1927, The Metaphysics of Pragmatism, Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co.
• 1933, Toward the Understanding of Karl Marx: A Revolutionary Interpretation, New York: John Day Co.
• 1934 (ed.), The Meaning of Marx [Symposium by Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Morris R. Cohen, Sherwood Eddy, and Sidney Hook], New York: Farrar and Rinehart.
• 1936, From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx, New York: John Day Co.
• 1939, John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, New York: John Day Co.
• 1943, The Hero in History, New York: John Day Co.
• 1946, Education for Modern Man, New York: Dial Press.
• 1952, Heresy, Yes – Conspiracy, No, New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom.
• 1960, “Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life,” Commentary 30 (1960), pp 139-149.
• 1961, The Quest for ‘Being,’ New York: St. Martin's Press.
• 1962, Paradoxes of Freedom, Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 1975, Paul Kurtz and Miro Todorovich (ed.), The Philosophy of the Curriculum, Buffalo: Prometheus Books.
• 1987, Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century, New York: Harper & Row.

Writing on Hook

• Capaldi, Nicholas, 1983, “Sidney Hook: A Personal Portrait,” in Kurtz 1983, pp. 17-27.
• Cotter, Matthew J. (ed.), 2004, Sidney Hook Reconsidered, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.
• Konvitz, Milton R., 1983, “Sidney Hook: Philosopher of the Moral-Critical Intelligence,” in Kurtz 1983, pp. 3-6.
• Kristol, Irving, “Life with Sidney: A Memoir,” in Kurtz 1983.
• Kurtz, Paul (ed.), 1968, Sidney Hook and the Contemporary World, New York: John Day and Co.
• Kurtz, Paul (ed.), 1983, Sidney Hook: Philosopher of Democracy and Humanism, Buffalo: Prometheus Books. [This Festschrift for Sidney Hook's eightieth birthday contains four essays on Hook's person and writings.]
• Kurtz, Paul, 1983a, “Preface: The Impact of Sidney Hook in the Twentieth Century,” in Kurtz 1983.
• Phelps, Christopher, 1962, Foreword to Sidney Hook, From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-11.
• Phelps, Christopher, 1997, Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist, Ithaca: University of Cornell.
• Ryan, Alan, 2002, Foreword to Sidney Hook, Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays, (Robert B. Talisse and Robert Tempio (eds.), Amherst: Prometheus Books, pp. 9-10.
• Sidorsky, David, 2003, “Charting the Intellectual Career of Sidney Hook: Five Major Steps” in Partisan Review, Volume 70, Number 2, pp. 324-342. [This is a slightly edited version of the essay which is printed as the Introduction to Matthew J. Cotter's collection of essays, Sidney Hook Reconsidered.]
• Morrison, M. (Pseudonym for Meyer Shapiro), “Sidney Hook's Attack on Trotskyism,” Fourth International, Volume 4, Number 7 (1943).
• Postel, Danny, “Sidney Hook, an Intellectual Street Fighter, Reconsidered,” The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 49, Number 11 (2002).

Biographical Resources

• Wikipedia Sidney Hook
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy Sidney Hook First published Thu May 8, 2008
• Sidney Hook Biography Encyclopedia of World Biography