University in Chains: Confronting the Military-industrial-academic Complex

by Giroux,Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9781594514227
• ISBN10: 1594514224
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Winner-2008 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award President Eisenhower originally included "academic" in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex--and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America. His newest book details the sweeping post-9/11 assault being waged on the academy by militarization, corporatization, and right-wing fundamentalists who increasingly view critical thought itself as a threat to the dominant political order. Giroux argues that the university has become a handmaiden of the Pentagon and corporate interests, it has lost its claim to independence and critical learning and has compromised its role as a democratic public sphere. And yet, in spite of its present embattled status and the inroads made by corporate power, the defense industries, and the right wing extremists, Giroux defends the university as one of the few public spaces left capable of raising important questions and educating students to be critical and engaged agents. He concludes by making a strong case for reclaiming it as a democratic public sphere. Read a review of University in Chainsat the AAUP online magazine Academe: Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP Read an interview with Henry Giroux and Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Education at: http://www.insidehighered.com

Table of Contents

Introduction : challenging the military-industrial-academic complex after 9/11	p. 1
Arming the academy : higher education in the shadow of the national security state	p. 13
Marketing the university : corporate power and the academic factory	p. 102
The new right-wing assault on higher education : academic unfreedom in America	p. 137
Breaking the chains : a strategy to retake the university	p. 200
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