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Of great relevance to contemporary debates about socialism and democracy, Young Sidney Hook reopens the controversial question of the relationship between Marxism and pragmatism. In the first biography of philosopher Sidney Hook to be published since his death in 1989, Christopher Phelps vividly describes the neglected early thought and political history of this important New York intellectual, pragmatist philosopher, and anti-Stalinist polemicist....

Marx and Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, revisionism, totalitarianism vs. democracy, and American intellectuals from John Reed to Michael Harrington and John Kenneth Galbraith - these are among the subjects Sidney Hook treats. In a selected group of essays and review articles, Professor Hook, who has been called the dean of critical Marxist scholars in the United States, demonstrates the range of his concerns and the coherence of an intellectual position...

After Marxism calls for a new radical coalition centered around morality and utopian sensibility. The book explores the kinds of commitments, values, and approaches to social realities that may still be described as radical today. These include the determination to end every form of oppression a freedom to combine many different theories and kinds of analysis an open and experimental attitude an appreciation of modernity's great promise of being on...