Convictions

By: Sidney Hook

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Hardcover | 1 March 1990 | Edition Number 1

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""I strongly urge everyone to read this volume of essays. . ." The Educational Forum "Convictions may indeed be interpreted as Sidney Hook's final outlook on the possibilities of a self-determined, dignified, and rational human life, or liberal education, and of a free and intelligently organized society. . . . it] will be appreciated by anybody with an interest in contemporary social and political philosophy." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy newsletter "Highly recommended." Library Journal ". . . the collection stands as an accessible and highly readable record of the personal convictions of one of America's most notable social philosophers." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy "His latest collection shows him to have been to the very end a nonpareil marshaler of arguments, as well as an exemplary figure in American intellectual life." Washington Post

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"Convictions may indeed be interpreted as Sidney Hook's final outlook on the possibilities of a self-determined, dignified, and rational human life, or liberal education, and of a free and intelligently organised society...[it] will be appreciated by anybody with an interest in contemporary social and political philosophy." - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy newsletter

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Introduction Sidney Hook (1902-1989)	p. 7
Personal and Philosophical	p. 13
Convictions	p. 15
The Uses of Death	p. 23
In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia	p. 33
The Ethics of Suicide	p. 36
Reflections on the Jewish Question	p. 47
Toward Greater Equality	p. 63
On Education	p. 71
Minimum Indispensables of a Liberal Education	p. 73
John Dewey's Philosophy of Education	p. 82
Notes	p. 93
Education in Defense of a Free Society	p. 94
The Principles and Problems of Academic Freedom	p. 105
Allan Bloom's Critique of American Education	p. 117
In Defense of Western Culture	p. 131
An Open Letter to the Stanford Faculty	p. 133
Note	p. 138
The Attack on Western Civilization an Interim Report	p. 139
Educational Disaster at Stanford University?	p. 148
The Academic-Brawley Cases	p. 157
Diversity" a New Code Word?"	p. 163
The Mischief Makers	p. 167
The Politics of Curriculum Building	p. 170
in Defense of the Humanities	p. 182
Political and Polemical	p. 191
The Faiths of Whittaker Chambers	p. 193
The Rationale of a Non-Partisan Welfare State	p. 200
How Democratic is America? Howard Zinn	p. 217
How Democratic is America? a Response to Howard Zinn	p. 231
Rebuttal to Sidney Hook	p. 245
Rejoinder to Howard Zinn	p. 250
Can American Universities Be Depoliticized?	p. 253
From the Platitudinous to the Absurd (a Response to H. D. Aiken)	p. 268
Myths and Realities: Mccarthyism and Communism	p. 276
Myths and Realities: Mccarthyism and Communism	p. 276
Notes	p. 298
a Philosophical Perspective	p. 299
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