Henry A Giroux: 40 books
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers
"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent...
The New Henry Giroux Reader
The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Time of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The New Henry Giroux Reader presents Henry Giroux’s evolving body of work. The book articulates a crucial shift in his analyses after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, when his writing took on more expansive articulations of power, politics, and pedagogy that addressed education and culture...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Henry Giroux's influence is growing and his political writing is hot. His political commentaries on Truthout attract large readerships and amass thousands of "likes" within days of posting. His pieces migrate fast, and appear on Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Alternet, and TruthDig—the...
Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism
Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
"Henry Giroux's essay awakens us to the ways new media proliferate and circulate images and ideas of terror that order our lives, pervert our pedagogy, delimit our democracy. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to comprehend our times, our politics, our possibilities." --David Theo...
by Henry A. Giroux, Christopher G. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A. Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural politics. This new book offers a carefully selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular...
American Nightmare
Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Henry Giroux’s message and influence have never been stronger. He saw Trump coming and sounded the alarm far in advance. That perspective was presented in his previous book from last year, America at War with Itself, which Robin D.G. Kelley has aptly referred to as a prescient work, as it assessed...
America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth
Reform Beyond Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Americas latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book opens by discussing the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the more pervasive is the terrorism perpetuated by the United States itself, whether through military force overseas...
Disturbing Pleasures
Learning Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In Disturbing Pleasures Henry Giroux demonstrates how his well-known theories of education, critical pedagogy and popular culture can be put to use in the classroom and in other cultural settings. Adding an entirely new dimension to his thinking about the cultural sites at which pedagogical practice...
Border Crossings
Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies...
Twilight of the Social
Resurgent Politics in an Age of Disposability
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In The Twilight of the Social, Henry A. Giroux looks at the decline of social spaces which enable grievances to be dealt with and considers new ways in which citizens can create social spaces today. After decades of neoliberalism, today's young people lack a voice and are saddled with economic, political,...
The Public in Peril
Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This is one of the first books to thoroughly critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact, nationally and globally. One of the world’s leading social critics, Giroux offers new critiques of Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends, including the rise...
Youth in Revolt
Reclaiming a Democratic Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Recently, American youth have demonstrated en masse about a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services. Youth in Revolt chronicles the escalating backlash against dissent and peaceful protest while exposing a lack of governmental...