Education for Modern Man by Hook, Sidney

Education for Modern Man (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781532694516)

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Education for Modern Man by Hook, Sidney

Education for Modern Man

$51.00
Education for Modern Man by Hook, Sidney

Education for Modern Man

$51.00
Format: Hardcover
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. . . a remarkable book. . . . A most penetrating study of education. --Saturday Review of Literature . . . an admirable defense of the critical mind in education . . . Sidney Hook is among the the Children of the Light, that is to say, of the Enlightenment. --Albert Guerard, New York Herald Tribune . . . Mr. Hook has put his finger . . . upon the profound fallacy of most of the current attempts to 'reorganize' higher education . . . exciting reading --Howard Mumford Jones, New York Times . . . needed by anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive view of the problems of modern education. --Wendell Johnson, Chicago Sun Sidney Hook brings . . . a new high standard of sanity and clarity. . . . For sheer excellence of logic, and for magic of comprehensiveness, the book is head and shoulders above all recent competitors. --William Randel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch . . . a fine book . . . it has the advantage of Mr. Hook's dissecting mind, operating with the cleanness of a surgical instrument. --Jerome Nathanson, The New Republic Wisely sane. --John Dewey

Author: Sidney Hook
ISBN-10: 1532694512
ISBN-13: 9781532694516
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
By Sidney Hook
By Sidney Hook
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Sidney Hook (1902-1987) was one of America's foremost social and political philosophers of the twentieth century. A student and acolyte of John Dewey, of whom he wrote a well-regarded intellectual portrait, he taught at all educational levels. He spent the bulk of his career as professor of philosophy at New York University, which awarded him the "Great Teacher Award" in 1963. He wrote well-received works in many areas, including, in addition to education, Marxism, pragmatism, the philosophy of history, the philosophy of democracy, and ethical issues such as euthanasia and suicide. Hook felt keenly about the importance of education for citizens of a democracy and in this volume spells out his views on how society may seek to implement that goal.

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