The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has died
of cancer. For French readers his obituary in Le Monde
(http://www.lemonde.fr/) can be found at
(http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3246--259825-,00.html).
Jim Farmelant
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Embarrassing early books
Authors change course: Hook embraced communism, then
anti-Stalinism
Jeet Heer
National Post
During the Reagan presidency, the philosopher Sidney
Hook was
Just to stir up some discussion, Carl Manzani and others warn against American
pragmatism. Some call pragmatism another name form of opportunism. Maurice
Cornforth termed pragmatism a form of positivism. Hook's sad career seems some
evidence for support of the critrique of pragmatism, since
