"Why do ruling classes fear history?" : and other questions
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"Why do ruling classes fear history?" : and other questions
Macmillan, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index
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In his foreword to 'Why do Ruling Classes Fear History?' and Other Questions, Daniel Singer says of Harvey Kaye, 'As a historian he addresses his fellows, urging them to teach their students and the general public that "the present is history and nothing is gained without struggle"; in other words, that the current power relations or institutions have been forged in the past and can be reshaped today and tomorrow.' Through essays that range in tone and content from the rhetorical power of a public address to the intimacy of a personal memoir, Harvey Kaye looks at the value of knowledge and the power of history to liberate. Not content to accept the notion that history is at an end and that individuals are powerless to effect change, Kaye makes an impassioned plea to understand the ongoing, circuitous route of history and its ability to engender social action at a time when society seems to have lost track of the true lessons that history can teach.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Daniel Singer - Introduction - PART 1: HISTORY AND MEMORY - A Note in Memory of Isaac Deutscher, Marxist Historian and Socialist Intellectual (1907-67) - Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History? The 1994 Deutscher Memorial Lecture - The Revolutionary Overthrow of Socialism? - The Age of Revolution Past and Present: A Note on Capitalism and Democracy in the Spring of 1989 - The End of History?...Not! - Photography and Historical Consciousness: Nicaragua, 1978-79 - The Nobel Prize, the Memory Prize, and the Twentieth Century - The Making of American Memory? - All That is Solid Melts into Air...or Baseball and Capitalism, the View from Left Field - From Bases to Superstructures: The Great Transformation of Baseball - PART 2: EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY - Should the Fact That We Live in a Democratic Society Make a Difference in What Our Schools Are Like? - A Radical Theology for Democratic Education - Schooling for a Democratic America? - The Liberal Arts and Democracy, with Henry A. Giroux - The Ends of History? The Question of National Standards - From Lessons of History to National Standards: Questions of Class, Labor, and American Radicalism - Preparing the Next Generation of Public Intellectuals PART 3: INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICS - Radicals and the Making of American Democracy: Toward a New Narrative for American History - American Radicalism Past and Present: An Interview - Tom Paine and the Making of the American Revolution - Redeeming Reason and Freedom: The Challenge of C. Wright Mills - A Tribute to E. P. Thompson, Marxist Historian and Radical Democrat (1924-93) - Whither the American Left? - The Last Intellectuals or Teachers for a Democratic Society? -Whither America? - The New American Crisis
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