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Written by <a href='/community/profile/382-laurence/'>laurence</a>
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Wednesday, 06 November 2002 22:45 |
Article: Sidney Hook, an Intellectual Street Fighter, thechronicle.com
"It would take a mighty large bookcase to contain all of the works on pragmatism published over the last two decades. The brainchild of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and William James (1842-1910) and most fully articulated by John Dewey (1859-1952), pragmatism was America's first homegrown philosophical movement...Its influence has been cast throughout American intellectual life and beyond, winning adherents in Britain, Germany, and elsewhere. Curiously, the second-most-influential pragmatist thinker of the 20th century, after John Dewey, has been almost completely overlooked amid the revival. Indeed, until very recently, Sidney Hook (1902-89) seemed to have been relegated to the dustbin of pragmatist history.
There was not a single book-length study of his work until 1997. But recent signs -- including a two-day conference on his legacy last month -- point to a resurgence of interest in the philosopher."
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