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Dedicated "to the memory of a Great Adversary," this 1940 work is a startling clarion call to embrace reason and rationality as the only way to solve social problems. Hook discusses: · democracy and scientific method · the meaning behind nonsense · the folklore of capitalism · ideas as weapons · integral humanism · science, atheism, and mythology · science and the "new obscurantism" · the mythology of class science · and much more.
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Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was professor emeritus at New York University and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Among his many books are Convictions; Paradoxes of Freedom; The Quest for Being; Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy; and an autobiography, Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century.
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- PublisherCosimo Inc
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1605206334
- ISBN 13 9781605206332
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages316
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