Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook (Desember 20, 1902 – Juli 12, 1989) adalah filsuf Amerika aliran pragmatis. Dikenal atas kontribusinya dalam filsafat sejarah, filsafat pendidikan, teori politik dan etika. Setelah menganut komunisme pada masa mudanya, Hook kemudian dikenal atas kritiknya terhadap totalitarianisme dari fasisme dan Marxisme-Leninisme. Dia adalah seorang demokrat sosial pragmatis, yang terkadang bekerja sama dengan kelompok konservatif, khususnya dalam menentang komunisme. Setelah Perang Dunia II, dia berpendapat bahwa anggota kelompok seperti Partai Komunis AS dan konspirasi Leninis lainnya dapat secara etika dilarang untuk menempati kantor kepercayaan publik karena mereka menganjurkan penggulingan keras pemerintahan demokratis.

Bibliografi

Buku 
 The Metaphysics of Pragmatism Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Company, 1927.
 Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx: A Revolutionary Interpretation New York City: John Day Company, 1933.
 Christianity and Marxism: A Symposium New York City: Polemic Publishers, 1934.
 The Meaning of Marx, an edited collection, 1934.
 From Hegel to Marx, 1936.
 John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, 1939.
 Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy, 1940.
 The Hero in History: A Study in Limitation and Possibility, 1943.
 Education for Modern Man, 1946.
 John Dewey: Philosopher of Science and Freedom, Hook, editor, 1950.
 Heresy, Yes; Conspiracy, No, 1953 (originally published as soft-back in 1952 by American Committee for Cultural Freedom)
 Marx and the Marxists: The Ambiguous Legacy, 1955.
 Common Sense and the Fifth Amendment New York City: Criterion Books, 1957.
 Political power and personal freedom: critical studies in democracy, communism, and civil rights, New York City: Criterion Books, 1959.
 The Quest for Being, and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism, 1961.
 The Fail-Safe Fallacy, 1962.
 The Paradoxes of Freedom, 1963.
 The Place of Religion in a Free Society, 1968.
 Academic Freedom and Academic Anarchy, 1970.
 Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life, 1974.
 Marxism and Beyond, 1983.
 Out of Step, 1987.
 Convictions, 1990.
 Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays, Robert B. Talisse and Robert Tempio (eds.), Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Artikel 
 "Karl Marx and Moses Hess," 1934
 "Marx's Criticism of 'True Socialism,'" 1935
 "Marx and Feuerbach," 1936
 "Heresy, Yes—But Conspiracy, No," The New York Times, 1950

Lihat pula 
 Filsafat Amerika
 Daftar filsuf Amerika

Referensi

Bibliografi pilihan oleh Hook 
 Out of Step, Harper & Row, 1987.Autobiography
 Robert B. Talisse and Robert Tempio, eds., Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Freedom, and Democracy: The Essential Essays, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Bacaan lebih lanjut 
 Cotter, Matthew J., ed., Sidney Hook Reconsidered, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004.
 Diggins, John Patrick, Up From Communism, New York City: Columbia University Press, then Harper & Row, 1975.
 Kurtz, Paul, ed., Sidney Hook and the Contemporary World, New York: John Day and Co., 1968.
 Kurtz, Paul, ed., Sidney Hook: Philosopher of Democracy and Humanism (a festschrift, for Hook's 80th birthday, containing four essays on his person and writings by Nicholas Capaldi, Milton R. Konvitz, Irving Kristol, and Paul Kurtz), Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1983.
 Levine, Barbara, ed., Sidney Hook: A Checklist of Writings, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1989.
 
 Sidorsky, David, “Charting the Intellectual Career of Sidney Hook: Five Major Steps,” Partisan Review, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 324–342, 2003.

Pranala luar 

 Book review of new edition of Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx (1933)
 Paul Mattick pamphlet in opposition to Hook, 1936.)
 Meyer Shapiro's polemic against Hook in Fourth International under the pseudonym "Morrison," 1943.)
 Julius Jacobson on Hook and Cold War liberalism 
 Chronicle of Higher Education article on the legacy of Sidney Hook
 Christopher Phelps, "Left Hook, Right Hook: The Rules of Engagement."
 Review of David Gordon, Letters of Sidney Hook - by David Gordon (Fall 1998), 1995.
 A warning against Menachem Begin. 
 John Patrick Diggins, Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul, eds., "Sidney Hook, Robert Nozick, and the Paradoxes of Freedom,", Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick (Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 22, no. 1, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200–220, 2005. 
 Dvid Sidorsky, essay on Sidney Hook, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online
 Sidney Hook papers at the Hoover Institution Archives.
 
 

Kelahiran 1902
Kematian 1989
Agnostik Amerika
Marxis Amerika
Filsafat Amerika
Alumni Columbia University
Guggenheim Fellows
Agnostik Yahudi
Penulis Amerika Yahudi
Filsuf Yahudi
Sosialis Yahudi
Teoritikus Marxis
Pragmatis
Anggota Demokrat Sosial AS
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Filsuf sejarah
Sejarawan abad ke-20
Humanis sekuler
Bekas Marxis
Penerima Presidential Medal of Freedom