Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism
Henry A. Giroux
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Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
Giroux probes the depth and range of forces pushing the United States into a new form of authoritarianism, one that connects the Orwellian surveillance state with the forms of ideological control made famous by Aldous Huxley. Addressing how neoliberalism, or the new market fundamentalism, is shaping a range of registers from language and memory to youth and higher education, Giroux explores how education in a variety of spheres is transformed into a type of miseducation perpetuated through what he calls a "disimagination machine"-one that reproduces the present by either distorting or erasing the past. But Giroux is not content to ... Read more
Giroux probes the depth and range of forces pushing the United States into a new form of authoritarianism, one that connects the Orwellian surveillance state with the forms of ideological control made famous by Aldous Huxley. Addressing how neoliberalism, or the new market fundamentalism, is shaping a range of registers from language and memory to youth and higher education, Giroux explores how education in a variety of spheres is transformed into a type of miseducation perpetuated through what he calls a "disimagination machine"-one that reproduces the present by either distorting or erasing the past. But Giroux is not content to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781612058641
SKU
V9781612058641
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About Henry A. Giroux
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. He has published numerous books and articles and his most recent books include America’s Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (2013) and Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2014).
Reviews for Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism
“Giroux’s passion virtually burns up the pages. Giroux calls out the corporate, Orwellian forces destroying our ability to think—a dangerous activity in our authoritarian society. Watch out—this book might turn on the critical imagination circuits in your brain that Giroux argues are our only hope for building democracy.” —Charles Derber, author of The Disinherited Majority and Sociopathic Society ... Read more