The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 43. The book is alphabetized by the whole headings of entries, as distinct from the first word of a heading. Hence, for example, abandonment comes before a priori and a posteriori. It is wise to look elsewhere if something seems to be missing. At the end of the book there is also a useful appendix on Logical Symbols as well as the appendices A Chronological Table of Philosophy and Maps of Philosophy. | 400 Honderich Ted Ted Honderich Conservatism Burke to Nozick to Blair London 2005 . ----On Political Means and Social Ends Edinburgh 2004 . ----After the Terror Edinburgh 2003 . ----Philosopher A Kind ofLife London 2001 . Hook Sidney 1902-89 . American exponent of pragma-tism naturalism and socialism a student of Morris R. Cohen and John Dewey. When he was on the faculty of New York University Hook s writings often in publications of broad circulation and on social political moral and educational issues made him widely known to the general public. Early and famously a Marxist activist he soon became even more celebrated as a critic of communism from the standpoint of democratic socialism with commitment to freedom and to the method of pragmatic naturalism as the foundation of his thought. Recognizing both the glory and the tragedy ofhuman life Hook saw in men something which is at once . . . more wonderful and more terrible than anything else in the universe the power to make themselves and the world around them better or worse . . Paul Kurtz ed. Sidney Hook and the Contemporary World Essays on the Pragmatic Intelligence New York 1968 . horizon. The unthematized field of perception or background of understanding accompanying the subject s experience of objects and meaning. The metaphor of the horizon has first proved useful in phenomenological theory of perception Husserl Merleau-Ponty . Accordingly every awareness of a perceptual object is attended by a frame of not directly represented features. While perceiving merely the front of a house for example we nevertheless see a complete three-dimensional object. Spatiality temporality and a background of indirectly represented objects thus form the horizon within which we always experience an object as such. In philosophical hermeneutics the cultural tradition provides the horizon within which the interpreter is capable of making sense of other meaning. Successful interpretation is conceived as a dialogue between
