Henry Giroux Bücher

Lays bare the ideological and political character of the positivist rationality that has been the primary theoretical underpinning of educational research in the United States. The author is the co-editor of Curriculum and Instruction: Alternatives in Education and The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education.

In a searing takedown of the populist authoritarian vision of America, The Terror of the Unforeseen tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump's presidency. Through the mendacious exchange of facts for "fake news," Henry A. Giroux examines the language of hatred that activates neoliberal fascism, complete with state-sanctioned racism, casino capitalism, and fear-mongering at federal and local levels. In this "age of disposability," Trump's rhetoric eschews reason and democratic principles in favor of impetuous politics rooted in bigotry, all to injuriously catastrophic effect. Through protests, strikes, and education, Giroux proposes an international social movement that joins together various modes of resistance to illuminate a democratic renewal, and proves himself once again as one of the great public intellectuals of our time.

Between Orwell and Huxley : America's plunge into dystopia -- Thinking dangerously in the age of political betrayal -- Data storms and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting -- Militarism's killing fields : from Afghanistan to Ferguson -- ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism : resisting mainstream workstations of fear -- Interview : organized forgetting. memory, and hope beyond authoritarianism -- The specter of neoliberal authoritarianism and the politics of the deep state -- Neoliberalism and the machinery of disposability -- Chapter 9-higher education and the new brutalism -- The poison of neoliberal miseducation--higher education as a dead zone of the imagination -- Interview : predatory neoliberalism as a global force -- Reclaim the radical imagination : politics beyond hope -- The responsibility of intellectuals in the shadow of the atomic plague -- Neoliberalism's war against the radical imagination -- Protesting youth in an age of neoliberal savagery -- Noam Chomsky and the courage of public intellectuals in dark times -- Interview : the specter of authoritarianism and the future of the left.

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people. Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven education policy. Championing the youth around the globe who have dared to resist the bartering of their future, he calls upon public intellectuals -- as well as all people concerned about the future of democracy -- to speak out and defend the university as a site of critical learning and democratic promise.--Provided by publisher

"This classic work represents [the author's] best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth. This ... work opens by discussing critical pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of culture, politics, and society. [The author] analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism and examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education"--

The book explores the impact of hyper capitalism on education and culture, urging a reevaluation of how adults and young people navigate a transformed world. It offers theoretical and political frameworks to analyze the interplay of pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power across various cultural contexts, extending beyond traditional schooling. The new introduction enhances the insights from the first edition, making it a relevant resource for educators and parents seeking to understand and address these critical issues.

With this book Henry A. Giroux argues that insurrection has become a dominant motif for the USA and other countries torn between the promises and ideals of democracy and an emergent authoritarianism. He argues that education is central to the idea of insurrection, showing how on the one hand it contributes to an insurrectional authoritarianism, wedded to a fascist legacy that calls for racial purity, militarism, ultra-nationalism, and state terrorism. On the other hand he presents the idea of insurrectional democracy which has a long legacy in the battle for racial justice, economic equality, and a politics of inclusion. The book explores how both positions are motivated by specific visions, values, and particular understandings of education and agency. He also shows how powerful images, social media, and the internet are in merging political education, power, and cultural politics. Giroux makes an impassioned call for an insurrectional democracy that makes education central to politics and produces an anti-capitalist consciousness as the basis for developing a mass movement in defence of a radical democracy.

America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as "four fundamentalisms": market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly designed to churn out drone-like future employees, imbued with authoritarian values, inured to violence, and destined to serve the market. And those are the lucky ones. Young people who don?t conform to cultural and economic discipline are left to navigate the neoliberal landscape on their own; if they are black or brown, they are likely to become ensnared by a harsh penal system. Giroux sets his sights on the war on youth and takes it apart, examining how a lack of access to quality education, unemployment, the repression of dissent, a culture of violence, and the discipline of the market work together to shape the dismal experiences of so many young people. He urges critical educators to unite with students and workers in rebellion to form a new pedagogy, and to build a new, democratic society from the ground up. Here is a book you won't soon forget, and a call that grows more urgent by the day

A far-ranging critique of the rise of authoritarianism and white nationalism in the US and the consequences for democracy.