Reason, Social Myths and Democracy

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.