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Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century
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Published
May 2020
by HarperCollins Publishers
(first published 1987)
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2016-Aug? - Remembered reading this book today, since a friend just mentioned an article and book about the 1960s campus protests. Sidney Hook taught Philosophy at Columbia and talked about the revolt on that campus and how it really soured him on the "new left." He considered himself a man of the left, but broke with it after considering how western civilization was so much better than international communism, of which the New Left idolized the ideas. I believe he considered himself part of the
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Fascinating account of radical circles in the 1930s, as well as interesting portraits of Dewey, B. Russell, and Einstein, but his posturing as an iconoclast became grating. Hook, after all, won a Presidential Medal of Freedom; the book may well have had the title, "Right at Home."
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May 30, 2020
Read January 18 to May 11, 2010.
The history and personal reflections were most interesting. The philosophy was a bit of a slog, though.
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Sidney Hook was an American pragmatic philosopher known for his contributions to public debates. A student of John Dewey, Hook continued to examine the philosophy of history, of education, politics, and of ethics. He was known for his criticisms of totalitarianism (fascism and Marxism–Leninism). A pragmatic social democrat, Hook sometimes cooperated with conservatives, particularly in opposing com
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