The university in chains
Subtitle: confronting the military-industrial-academic complex
By: by Henry A. Giroux.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781594514227; 9781594514234
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.; Higher education and state -- United States.; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.; Militarism -- United States.
Description: The University in Chains argues that both the academy and democracy are in peril, that a fundamental assault has been launched on the academy's unfulfilled legacy of democratic education and its present and future role as a democratic public sphere. But the rigid ideological, economic, and religious chains that are now engulfing higher education so as to eliminate critical thought, noncommodified and nonmilitarized forms of knowledge, intellectual engagement with important social issues, and interdisciplinary social formations represent more than an attack on democracy. Such assaults also suggest an attack on politics itself-that is, on those forms of teaching, exchange, dialogue, and social relations that refuse to "methodically eliminate speaking and acting human beings. "The University in Chains makes a case for reclaiming higher education as a democratic public sphere and counterinstitution, one that enables teachers and students to engage in a culture of questioning, a pedagogy of critical engagement, and a democratic politics of civic responsibility.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : challenging the military-industrial-academic complex after 9/11; title: Arming the academy : higher education in the shadow of the national security state; title: Marketing the university : corporate power and the academic factory; title: The new right-wing assault on higher education : academic unfreedom in America; title: Breaking the chains : a strategy to retake the university.