Reason, Social Myths and Democracy (Torchbooks) - Softcover

Hook, Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061312371 ISBN 13: 9780061312373

Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books, 1966

Synopsis

Dedicated "to the memory of a Great Adversary," this 1940 work is a startling clarion call to embrace reason and rationality as the only way to solve social problems. Hook discusses: · democracy and scientific method · the meaning behind nonsense · the folklore of capitalism · ideas as weapons · integral humanism · science, atheism, and mythology · science and the "new obscurantism" · the mythology of class science · and much more.

About this title

About the Author:

Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was professor emeritus at New York University and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Among his many books are Convictions; Paradoxes of Freedom; The Quest for Being; Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy; and an autobiography, Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0061312371
• ISBN 13: 9780061312373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302