Dangerous thinking in the age of the new authoritarianism
By: Henry A. Giroux
Series: Critical interventions : politics, culture, and the promise of democracy; Critical interventions (Boulder, Colo.)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781612058634; 9781612058641
Subjects: Authoritarianism; Education; Totalitarianism; Neoliberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Orwell and Huxley's America: Between Orwell and Huxley : America's plunge into dystopia ; Thinking dangerously in an age of political betrayal ; Data storms and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting ; Militarism's killing fields : from Afghanistan to Ferguson ; ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism : resisting mainstream workstations of fear ; Interview: Organized forgetting ; memory and the politics of hope; title: The savagry of neoliberalism: Beyond Orwellian nightmares and the politics of the deep state ; Neoliberalism and the machinery of disposability; title: Higher education and the new brutalism; title: The poison of neoliberal miseducation : higher education as dead zones of the imagination; title: Interview: Predatory neoliberalism as a global force; title: Reclaim the radical imagination : politics beyond hope: The responsibility of intellectuals in the shadow of the atomic plague : fighting back against the neoliberal disimagination machine; title: Neoliberalism's war against the radical imagination; title: Protesting youth in an age of neoliberal savagery; title: Noam Chomsky and the public intellectual  in dark times : from hope to confrontation; title: Interview: The specter of authoritarianism and the future of the left.