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Article: Charting the intellectual career of Sidney Hook: five major steps.
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- Partisan Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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THE CENTENNIAL OF SIDNEY HOOK'S BIRTH provides a unique vantage point for surveying the main intellectual movements of the twentieth century. These movements can be observed from the perspective afforded by each of the five major steps of Hook's intellectual career. He was, to a degree probably unparalleled by any other philosopher of his generation, actively involved in the cultural and political conflicts of his time.
Pragmatism, which is generally considered to be the first indigenously American philosophical movement, was born just after the turn of the century. Sidney Hook became a partisan of this philosophy, whose themes provided the substance for the ...