Henry Giroux: 43 books
Pedagogy And The Politics Of Hope
Theory, Culture, And Schooling: A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in the modern world. For those who follow his considerably influential work in critical pedagogy and social criticism, this first-ever collection of his...
Educazione e crisi dei valori pubblici
Le sfide per insegnanti, studenti ed educazione pubblica
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Questo libro è una discussione critica radicale - che non concede attenuanti - degli effetti del "neoliberalismo" sulla scuola e sull'educazione negli ultimi decenni. È pure un’appassionata difesa – con una forte tensione etico-civile – della figura e del ruolo degli insegnanti pubblici....
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...