Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism
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 &quote;disimagination machine&quote;-one that reproduces the present by either distorting or erasing the past. But Giroux is not co…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-26165-0
- EAN: 9781317261650
- Produktnummer: 24383528
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'211 KB
- Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Über den Autor
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).
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