Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed

by Giroux,Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9781594515200
• ISBN10: 1594515204
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life'”from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory, the new 'œcorporate state' distances itself from workers and minority groups, who become more disposable in a new age of uncertainty and manufactured fear. This is the only book to connect the history, ideology, and consequences of neoliberal policies to education and cultural issues that pervade almost every aspect of daily life. A significantly revised and updated new version of Giroux's 2003 book, The Terror of Neoliberalism, this book points to ways in which neoliberal ideology can be resisted, and how new forms of citizenship and collective struggles can be forged, to reclaim the meaning both of a substantive politics and of a democratic society. Read a review at http://www.dissidentvoice.org Against the Terror of Neoliberalismwas featured in the New York Times in the Stanley Fish blog: Stanley Fish Blog

Author Biography

Henry A. Giroux is the Global Television Network Chair Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Slouching Toward Bethlehem	p. 1
The Emerging Authoritarianism in the United States: Political Culture Under the Bush/Cheney Administration	p. 15
Spectacles of Race and Pedagogies of Denial	p. 60
Disabling the Future: Youth in the Age of Market Fundamentalism	p. 84
Neoliberalism as Public Pedagogy	p. 112
The Politics of Hope in Dangerous Times	p. 130
Against Neoliberal Common Sense: Rethinking Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogy in Dark Times	p. 147
Notes	p. 181
Index	p. 218
About the Author	p. 226
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