Sidney Hook’s controversial career as a public intellectual grounded in pragmatic liberalism solidified him as the leading liberal critic of liberalism. Hook forthrightly advocated American democratic principles against a legion…

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…

… a remarkable book… . A most penetrating study of education. –Saturday Review of Literature … an admirable defense of the critical mind in education … Sidney Hook is among…

An earlier defender of Marxism, Sidney Hook became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary manifestations. A student of John Dewey’s pragmatism, he has written about most…

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…

Probes how heroes influence the course of history.

John Dewey’s best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Education, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, in the introduction to this…

For use in schools and libraries only. A trio of important works from the English Voltaire and advocate of democracy includes Common Sense, in which he declared independence from Britain…