Political power and personal freedom : critical studies in democracy, communism, and civil rights / Sidney Hook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hook, Sidney, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and liberty.

Socialism.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 pages)

Other Title:

Political Power and Personal Freedom

Place of Publication:

New York : Criterion Books, 1959.

Contents:

The philosophical heritage of the Atlantic democracies

Democracy or republic?

Are there two kinds of democracy?

The justification of democracy

Bread, freedom, and free enterprise

Democracy as a philosophy of history

The degradation of the word

Democracy and desegregation

The conflict between the communist and democratic philosophies

Historical determinism and political fiat in Soviet communism

The individual in a totalitarian society

Science and dialectical materialism

The literature of political disillusionment

The psychology of the "fellow-traveler"

Ideological espionage

The problem of the ex-Communist

The fall of the town of Usher: a political fantasy

Security and freedom

Liberalism and the law

The fallacies of ritualistic liberalism

The ethics of employment

Academic freedom and academic integrity

The challenge to freedom

Karl Marx in limbo

Socialism and freedom

Socialism and freedom: a criticism of Sidney Hook / by Max Eastman

Socialism without utopia: a rejoinder to Max Eastman

The nature and sources of fascism

Hitlerism: a non-metaphysical view

The strategy of political warfare

Socialism and the prospects of liberation

A foreign policy for freedom and survival

The intellectual in America.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.