Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

by Henry A. Giroux

Overview

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.

In this updated edition, Giroux puts all of this into the context of the Trump era, arguing that education remains a key battleground for the fight against authoritarianism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642591842
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	10/20/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster UniversityChair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge's Key Guides Publication Series. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the "12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think. "His most recent books include: Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014),Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America's Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights, 2018), and his forthcoming, The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of books, in press). Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors. His web site is .henryagiroux.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction The Language of Neoliberal Eduction Mitja Sardoc Interviews Henry A. Giroux 1

Chapter 1 Neoliberalism's War on Democracy 13

Chapter 2 Dystopian Education in a Neoliberal Society 41

Chapter 3 At the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British. Divide 65

Chapter 4 Intellectual Violence in the Age of Gated Intellectuals: Critical Pedagogy and a Return to the Political Brad Evans Henry A. Giroux 87

Chapter 5 On the Urgency for Public Intellectuals in the Academy 113

Chapter 6 The Promise of Education in Difficult Times Reading against Fascism in the Age of Trump 137

Chapter 7 Higher Education, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Disposability 169

Conclusion Higher Education and the Threat of Neoliberal Fascism Mark Karlin Interviews Henry A. Giroux 193

Notes 207

Index 235

Editorial Reviews

“Professor Giroux has focused his keen intellect on the hostile corporate takeover of higher education in North America. . . . He is relentless in his defense of a society that requires its citizenry to place its cultural, political, and economic institutions in context so they can be interrogated and held truly accountable. We are fortunate to have such a prolific writer and deep thinker to challenge us all.”
―Karen Lewis, Emerita President, Chicago Teachers Union

“No one has been better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the many ways in which neoliberalism, with its vicious and predatory excesses, has damaged the American economy and undermined its democratic processes. Now, as Giroux brilliantly explains, it is threatening one of the nation’s proudest and most important achievements―its system of higher education.”
―Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and former op-ed columnist for the New York Times

“Henry Giroux remains the critical voice of a generation. . . . He dares us to reevaluate the significance of public pedagogy as integral to any viable notion of democratic participation and social responsibility. Anybody who is remotely interested in the plight of future generations must read this book.”
―Dr. Brad Evans, Director, Histories of Violence website

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