America on the Edge Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and Education

by Giroux, Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9781403971609
• ISBN10: 1403971609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

For more than 20 years Henry Giroux has challenged readers to address the political exploitation and manipulation of American youth. Now, this compelling new book offers a comprehensive selection of Girouxs best works. From his most influential classics to new, never before published essays, America on the Edge offers an overview of Giroux's philosophies throughout his career. From his classic subjects, such as education and democracy and media and youth culture, to revolutionary new views on terrorism, globalization, and morality, this book is essential for all Giroux fans and educators alike. Henry Giroux provides a series of brilliant and provocative essays on the rise of authoritarianism in America, the rise of religious fundamentalism, the crisis of youth, the militarizing of public space, the politics of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the rise of the corporate university, the rise of Orwellian newspeak in the media, the emergence of a hard-boiled masculinity in popular culture, and what it means to reclaim hope in dark times. These essays combine important social issues with an accessible and clear language of historical understanding, critique, and possibility. Giroux argues that the United States is in the midst of a political crisis that is slowly undermining the foundation of democratic politics, culture, and education. He also argues that the crisis of politics is matched by a crisis of imagination and that if democracy is going to survive it is imperative to both rethink the nature of democracy while refashioning a new political language and cultural politics capable of both stopping the current turn toward authoritarianism and reclaiming the possibilities of a substantive democracy.

Author Biography

Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University. His previous books with Palgrave include The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear and Take Back Higher Education (with Susan Giroux).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Henry Giroux on Critical Pedagogy and the Responsibilities of the Public Intellectual: Interviews with Marcia Morales, Mike Pozo & Sina Rahmani * Part I: America under Siege: Authoritarianism & Democracy * The Conservative Assault on America * Democracy and the Crisis of Public Education * From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib: Rethinking Representation as Public Pedagogy * Part II: Against Fundamentalism: Resisting Religious Extremism and Market Orthodoxy * The Passion of the Right: Religious Fundamentalism and the Crisis of Democracy * Academic Entrepreneurs: The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education * Part III: Rethinking Political and Cultural Literacy * Orwellian Newspeak and the Crisis of Democracy * The Abandoned Generation: The Urban Debate League and the Politics of Possibility * Movies and Public Pedagogy: Film as Cultural Politics * Part IV: Race, Surveillance, and Social Justice * Spectacles of Race and Pedagogies of Denial * Racial Injustice and Disposable Youth in the Age of Zero Tolerance* Part V: Militarization, Masculinity, and the Spectre of Fascism * Waging War On Democracy: The Militarizing of Public Space * Brutalized Bodies and Emasculated Politics: Fight Club * Part VI: Youth, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Hope * Heroin Chic, Consumerism, and the Politics of Seduction * Reclaiming Education and Hope in Dark Times * Translating the Future

Introduction: Henry Giroux on Critical Pedagogy and the Responsibilities of the Public Intellectual: Interviews with Marcia Morales, Mike Pozo & Sina Rahmani * Part I: America under Siege: Authoritarianism & Democracy * The Conservative Assault on America * Democracy and the Crisis of Public Education * From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib: Rethinking Representation as Public Pedagogy * Part II: Against Fundamentalism: Resisting Religious Extremism and Market Orthodoxy * The Passion of the Right: Religious Fundamentalism and the Crisis of Democracy * Academic Entrepreneurs: The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education * Part III: Rethinking Political and Cultural Literacy * Orwellian Newspeak and the Crisis of Democracy * The Abandoned Generation: The Urban Debate League and the Politics of Possibility * Movies and Public Pedagogy: Film as Cultural Politics * Part IV: Race, Surveillance, and Social Justice * Spectacles of Race and Pedagogies of Denial * Racial Injustice and Disposable Youth in the Age of Zero Tolerance* Part V: Militarization, Masculinity, and the Spectre of Fascism * Waging War On Democracy: The Militarizing of Public Space * Brutalized Bodies and Emasculated Politics: Fight Club * Part VI: Youth, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Hope * Heroin Chic, Consumerism, and the Politics of Seduction * Reclaiming Education and Hope in Dark Times * Translating the Future