Henry A Giroux: 40 books
Disposable Futures
The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Brad Evans is an emerging voice in radical theory circles who will resonate with the market of public intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek—established intellectuals who command large trade readerships through popular culture.
Accessible and serious, fans of the classic Guy Debord book "Society...
Stormy Weather
Katrina and the Politics of Disposability
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"By far the single most important account and analysis of the Katrina catastrophe." David L. Clark, McMaster University In his newest provocative book, prominent social critic Henry A. Giroux shows how the tragedy and suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina signals a much larger...
University in Chains
Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
President Eisenhower originally included 'academic' in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex - and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America. Giroux details the...
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political,...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Students are graduating from college with an unprecedented amount of debt. The Quebec student movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement proves that large numbers of students are demanding explanations for why they are crippled with debt and subject to ever increasing tution.
Giroux shows...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
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...
The Mouse that Roared
Disney and the End of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
How are children—and their parents—affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children.
Impure Acts
The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire.
Fugitive Cultures
Race, Violence, and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its political and pedagogical value as a site of critique...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
Politics After Hope
Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength. By focusing on those areas where...
Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life
Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book examines the relationship between democracy and schooling and argues that schools are one of the few spheres left where youth can learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become engaged, critical citizens. Not only is the legacy of democracy addressed through the work of John Dewey and...
Hearts of Darkness
Torturing Children in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
George W. Bush's war on terror defended torture as a matter of official policy and furthered an already emergent culture of cruelty. As torture became normalized in the Bush era, it not only corrupted American ideals and political culture, it also passed over to the dark side in sanctioning the unimaginable...
Against the Terror of Neoliberalism
Politics Beyond the Age of Greed
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life-from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory,...