Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook ( born December 20, 1902 in New York City; † July 12, 1989 in Stanford, California ) was an American philosopher and writer.

Hook came from a family of Austrian Jews who had emigrated in the 1880s in the United States. The in Manhattan, New York -born grew from the age of three to in Williamsburg ( Brooklyn ), where he attended Boy's High School. He then studied at the City College of New York and Columbia University where he was a student of John Dewey. From 1931 to 1936 he taught at the New School for Social Research and at the same time began an academic career at New York University, where he taught philosophy as a full professor from 1939 to 1969.

Hook was considered the leading anti-Stalinist intellectuals in the U.S. of the Cold War.

Works (selection)

• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism, Chicago 1929
• John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, New York 1939
• The hero in history, Nuremberg: nest -Verl, 1951.
• Marx and the marxists, Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1955
• From Hegel to Marx, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962
• Paradoxes of Freedom, Berkeley in 1962.