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Author Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989, author

Title Political power and personal freedom : critical studies in democracy, communism, and civil rights / by Sidney Hook
Published New York : Criterion Books, [1959]
©1959

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 462 pages)
Contents The fall of the town of Usher : a political fantasy -- Security and freedom. Appendix: Security measures for civil servants in England -- Liberalism and the law -- The fallacies of ritualistic liberalism -- The ethics of employment -- Academic freedom and academic integrity. Appendices: A. Letter from Dr. Ralph Fuchs. B. A reply to Professor Fuchs. C. A dissent by Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Academic freedom in the United States : two views -- The challenge to freedom -- Karl Marx in llimbo -- 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. Appendices: A. A reply by Bertrand Russell. B. A rejoinder to Bertrand Russell. C. A counter-reply by Bertrand Russell. D. A counter-rejoinder to Bertrand Russell -- The intellectual in America
The philosophical heritage of the Atlantic democracies -- Democracy or republic? -- Are there two kinds of democracy? -- The justifications of democracy -- Bread, freedom, and free enterprise -- Democracy as a philosophy of history -- The degradation of the word -- Democracy and desegregation -- Appendix: Justice Harlan's dissent in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 -- 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 yof the "fellow-traveler" -- Appendices: A. Letter to Thomas Mann. B. Letter from A.J. Carlson -- Ideological espionage. Appendix: Statement of Harry Gold -- The problem of the ex-communist --
Notes "07354"
Bibliography Includes index
Notes Print version record; online resource viewed June 12, 2017
Subject Communism and liberty.
Communism.
Critical legal studies -- United States.
Democracy.
Liberty.
Socialism.
LC no. 59006126
Other Titles Critical studies in democracy, communism, and civil rights
Democracy, communism, and civil rights