Public Spaces, Private Lives Democracy Beyond 9/11

by Giroux, Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9780742525269
• ISBN10: 0742525260
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-10
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

While many of the essays in this book were written before 9/11, they point to a number of important issues such as the commercialization of public life, the stepped up militarization, racial profiling, and the threat to basic civil liberties that have bee

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction Collective Hopes in the Age of Privatized Visions	ix
Cultural Studies and the Culture of Politics
Beyond Polemics and Cynicism	1	(28)
Youth, Domestic Militarization, and the Politics of Zero Tolerance	29	(52)
Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders
Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence	55	(26)
Pedagogy of the Depressed	81	(84)
``Something's Missing''
From Utopianism to a Politics of Educated Hope	109	(32)
AFTERWORD
Reading Giroux: Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Radical Democracy	141	(24)
Douglas Kellner
Notes	165	(34)
Index	199	(6)
About the Author	205