Wide ranging but highly integrated framework for understanding the possibilities for social change
Giroux offers a new language of social criticism applicable to today's most pressing problems
Covers a wide range of phenomenon-growing inequality, human rights, refuges crises, citizenship, incarceration, the media, etc.
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
In this outstanding book, Henry Giroux dismembers the violent extremism that seeks to dominate humanity. This book is a bracing, eloquent warning.
-John Pilger, film director and journalist
Section 1: Orwell and Huxley's America
Chapter 1: Between Orwell and Huxley
Chapter 2: Thinking Dangerously in an Age of Political Betrayal
Chapter 3: Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting
Chapter 4: Militarism's Killing Fields
Chapter 5: ISIS and the Spectacle of Terrorism
Chapter 6: Interview Organized Forgetting
Section 2: The Savagery of Neoliberalism
Chapter 7: Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and the Politics of the Deep State
Chapter 8: Neoliberalism and the Machinery of Disposability
Chapter 9: Higher Education and the New Brutalism
Chapter 10: The Poison of Neoliberal Miseducation
Chapter 11: Interview Predatory Neoliberalism as a Global Force
Section 3: Reclaim the Radical Imagination
Chapter 12: The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Shadow of the Atomic Plague
Chapter 13: Neoliberalism's War against the Radical Imagination
Chapter 14: Protesting Youth in an Age of Neoliberal Savagery
Chapter 15: Noam Chomsky and the Public Intellectual in Dark Times
Chapter 16: Interview The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left