Fred Siegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 704938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred Siegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred |
| FAMILY NAME | Siegel |
| SIGNATURE | SIEGEL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cooper Union |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Irving Howe: A Leftism of Reason
Liberalism and the Long 1960s
Over the years, there has been an imprudent effort to elucidate the events that marked the end of the spirit of the 1960s. Some have selected the Weathermen's rage in the city of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention; others have cited Altamont or the Manson murders. But the fundamental mistake is failing to see that the sixties, as a decade that defined our culture and politics, have never come to an end. As Thomas Frank has written,…
The Poverty of Environmentalism
How the Left Interred Social Democracy
Research Article| December 01 2011 How the Left Interred Social Democracy Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (4): 43–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1375312 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Fred Siegel; How the Left Interred Social Democracy. Labor 1 December 2011; 8 (4): 43–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1375312 Download citatio…
Reclaiming Our Public Spaces
The Skeptic
Clown Politics: Report on the International Clown-Theatre Congress
PHILADELPHIA, 23-28 June 1991 The most striking performance at the congress was also one of the most oblique. I had trouble making full narrative sense of Clomadeus, performed by the imagistic Soviet troupe, Ilkholm. Nevertheless, Yuri Belov, formerly of the Moscow Circus and currently teaching at the North Carolina School of the Arts, assured me that to the Soviet mind, it made perfect sense. Clomadeus was about the dehumanization of oppressed p…
Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974
Journal Article Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974. By John Morton Blum. (New York: Norton, 1991. x + 530 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-393-02969-7.) Get access Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Cooper Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1249–1250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080945 Published: 01 December 1992
Theater of Guts: An Exploration of the Sideshow Aesthetic
Despite its title, Bradshaw's Circus of World Curiosities is only tangentially related to circus-it would more properly be called a ten-in-one; a sideshow in which ten acts perform for one low admission price. Shows like Bradshaw's have become a rarity in an amusement industry dominated by squeaky clean, multimillion dollar theme parks. These giant corporate concerns filled with thrill rides and costumed characters have no room for dangerous-to-e…
History and politics: A common fate
The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government
Journal Article The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government. By James A. Morone. (New York: Basic Books, 1990. xiv + 402 pp. $22.95.) Get access Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Cooper Union, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1036–1037, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078811 Published: 01 December 1991
Individualism, etatism, and the ACLU
The Nixon Realignment
The Fabled Decade
An American Menshevik
Roundtable on Communitarianism
We are here to discuss a range of social and political issues which can be subsumed under the rubric of communitarianism, and which are increasingly rising to the top of various political agendas.What is this communitarianism? While this question is undoubtedly open to a variety of possible answers, let me propose a simple working description. Communitarianism refers to those political sentiments sometimes associated with populism. It involves an…
Roundtable on Intellectuals and the Academy
Tim Luke, Paul Piccone, Fred Siegel and Michael Taves
Is Archie Bunker Fit to Rule? Or: How Immanuel Kant Became One of the Founding Fathers
Until the mid 1970s, pragmatism reigned as the “almost... official philosophy of America.” European critics charged that James’ and Dewey's pragmatism was less a philosophy than a “method of doing without one.” But pragmatism's loose and democratic emphasis on problem-solving suited the unbounded American personality with its optimistic faith in persistent progress. Dewey's pragmatism was at once so democratic and informal in its emphasis on shar…
The Liberal Crack-Up Liberalism Reconsidered
Jennifer Hochschild. The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation. Yale University Press. New Haven, 1984
Emil Oestereicher (1936-1983) Notes on Neo-Liberalism
I spent last year teaching in Paris and when I came home for visits, Emil and I would play the analogy game between Western European and American political tendencies. Besides the obvious matches between Reagan, Thatcher and Chirac, we talked of the similarities between George Will and Ian Gilmore, the intellectual spokesman for the Tory Wets, both of whom drew on the same stock of quotes from Bolingbroke, Hume and Burke. But what of the American…
The Alliance: America-Europe-Japan, Makers of the Post-War
Richard Barnet, The Alliance: America-Europe-Japan, Makers of the Post-War, (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster), 511 pp., $19.95
The Agony of Christopher Lasch
Jeremiads declaiming our depravity, decline from republican virtue, or, more recently, psychological sicknesses are staples of American culture. What then distinguishes Christopher Lasch's pronouncements of damnation from a host of others that have appeared recently? Why have Lasch's Haven in a Heartless World (1977) and The Culture of Narcissism (1979) rushed to the head of this parade, becoming required reading at the White House and attracting…
The Virginia Ideology
Parameters for Paternalism
Urbanization in the Colonial South: A Critique
Joseph A. Ernst and H. Roy Merrens offer a new interpretation of the significance of urbanization in the southern colonies during the eighteenth century.' After reviewing and criticizing earlier historical interpretations, Ernst and Merrens advance the thesis the distributive function of urban centers played a major role in furthering diversification of the economy in the southern colonies. Unfortunately, the authors' conceptual approach seriousl…
Roundtable on Communitarianism
We are here to discuss a range of social and political issues which can be subsumed under the rubric of communitarianism, and which are increasingly rising to the top of various political agendas.What is this communitarianism? While this question is undoubtedly open to a variety of possible answers, let me propose a simple working description. Communitarianism refers to those political sentiments sometimes associated with populism. It involves an…
Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974
Journal Article Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974. By John Morton Blum. (New York: Norton, 1991. x + 530 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-393-02969-7.) Get access Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Cooper Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1249–1250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080945 Published: 01 December 1992
Urbanization in the Colonial South: A Critique
Joseph A. Ernst and H. Roy Merrens offer a new interpretation of the significance of urbanization in the southern colonies during the eighteenth century.' After reviewing and criticizing earlier historical interpretations, Ernst and Merrens advance the thesis the distributive function of urban centers played a major role in furthering diversification of the economy in the southern colonies. Unfortunately, the authors' conceptual approach seriousl…
Parameters for Paternalism
The Virginia Ideology
The Agony of Christopher Lasch
Jeremiads declaiming our depravity, decline from republican virtue, or, more recently, psychological sicknesses are staples of American culture. What then distinguishes Christopher Lasch's pronouncements of damnation from a host of others that have appeared recently? Why have Lasch's Haven in a Heartless World (1977) and The Culture of Narcissism (1979) rushed to the head of this parade, becoming required reading at the White House and attracting…
Emil Oestereicher (1936-1983) Notes on Neo-Liberalism
I spent last year teaching in Paris and when I came home for visits, Emil and I would play the analogy game between Western European and American political tendencies. Besides the obvious matches between Reagan, Thatcher and Chirac, we talked of the similarities between George Will and Ian Gilmore, the intellectual spokesman for the Tory Wets, both of whom drew on the same stock of quotes from Bolingbroke, Hume and Burke. But what of the American…
The Alliance: America-Europe-Japan, Makers of the Post-War
Richard Barnet, The Alliance: America-Europe-Japan, Makers of the Post-War, (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster), 511 pp., $19.95
The Liberal Crack-Up Liberalism Reconsidered
Jennifer Hochschild. The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation. Yale University Press. New Haven, 1984
Is Archie Bunker Fit to Rule? Or: How Immanuel Kant Became One of the Founding Fathers
Until the mid 1970s, pragmatism reigned as the “almost... official philosophy of America.” European critics charged that James’ and Dewey's pragmatism was less a philosophy than a “method of doing without one.” But pragmatism's loose and democratic emphasis on problem-solving suited the unbounded American personality with its optimistic faith in persistent progress. Dewey's pragmatism was at once so democratic and informal in its emphasis on shar…
Roundtable on Intellectuals and the Academy
Tim Luke, Paul Piccone, Fred Siegel and Michael Taves
An American Menshevik
Roundtable on Communitarianism
We are here to discuss a range of social and political issues which can be subsumed under the rubric of communitarianism, and which are increasingly rising to the top of various political agendas.What is this communitarianism? While this question is undoubtedly open to a variety of possible answers, let me propose a simple working description. Communitarianism refers to those political sentiments sometimes associated with populism. It involves an…
The Fabled Decade
The Nixon Realignment
Theater of Guts: An Exploration of the Sideshow Aesthetic
Despite its title, Bradshaw's Circus of World Curiosities is only tangentially related to circus-it would more properly be called a ten-in-one; a sideshow in which ten acts perform for one low admission price. Shows like Bradshaw's have become a rarity in an amusement industry dominated by squeaky clean, multimillion dollar theme parks. These giant corporate concerns filled with thrill rides and costumed characters have no room for dangerous-to-e…
History and politics: A common fate
The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government
Journal Article The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government. By James A. Morone. (New York: Basic Books, 1990. xiv + 402 pp. $22.95.) Get access Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Cooper Union, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1036–1037, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078811 Published: 01 December 1991
Individualism, etatism, and the ACLU
Clown Politics: Report on the International Clown-Theatre Congress
PHILADELPHIA, 23-28 June 1991 The most striking performance at the congress was also one of the most oblique. I had trouble making full narrative sense of Clomadeus, performed by the imagistic Soviet troupe, Ilkholm. Nevertheless, Yuri Belov, formerly of the Moscow Circus and currently teaching at the North Carolina School of the Arts, assured me that to the Soviet mind, it made perfect sense. Clomadeus was about the dehumanization of oppressed p…
Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974
Journal Article Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974. By John Morton Blum. (New York: Norton, 1991. x + 530 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-393-02969-7.) Get access Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Cooper Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1249–1250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080945 Published: 01 December 1992
The Skeptic
Reclaiming Our Public Spaces
How the Left Interred Social Democracy
Research Article| December 01 2011 How the Left Interred Social Democracy Fred Siegel Fred Siegel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (4): 43–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1375312 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Fred Siegel; How the Left Interred Social Democracy. Labor 1 December 2011; 8 (4): 43–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1375312 Download citatio…
The Poverty of Environmentalism
Liberalism and the Long 1960s
Over the years, there has been an imprudent effort to elucidate the events that marked the end of the spirit of the 1960s. Some have selected the Weathermen's rage in the city of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention; others have cited Altamont or the Manson murders. But the fundamental mistake is failing to see that the sixties, as a decade that defined our culture and politics, have never come to an end. As Thomas Frank has written,…
Irving Howe: A Leftism of Reason
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