Introduction; Chapter 1 Arming the Academy; Chapter 2 Marketing the University; Chapter 3 The New Right-Wing Assault on Higher Education; Chapter 4 Breaking the Chains;
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007) and Against the Terror of Neoliberalism (2008).
“I know of no more acute a commentator on higher education in the
United States today. Profound and unsparing, Giroux’s book
concludes with an imaginative strategy to transform the university
into a truly democratic institution.”
–Howard Zinn
“In this book Giroux continues to develop his analysis of higher
education in the U.S., adding to the voluminous body of work he has
published over the past 30 years. He writes from the standpoint of
a public intellectual and from within the school of thought founded
by Paulo Freire. … Recommended.”
—CHOICE
“Should be read as a clarion call to summon back an administration
caught in a near-death experience and to waken a slumbering faculty
to the dangers in our hallowed halls … The University in Chains is
required reading for everyone in higher education. Buy several
copies for your department. Distribute it widely.”
—Richard A. Quantz in Educational Studies
“The University in Chains could be the single reason why ‘higher’
education might be saved from the hands of corporatization and
militarization. … [The book] provides crucial insights and an
antidote to the state of universities today that those concerned
with human rights, anti-war, critical pedagogy, and freedom of
critical thought and higher education will find of great value.
Giroux’s brilliant design of the book, from the development of
corporate universities to the relationship between military and
academia, ends not in hopelessness, but in a call to break the
chains of these dominating industrial complexes, and to proclaim
that the protection of academia is the most important battle that
students, faculty, and staff must unite together to fight for!”
—Political Media Review
“The University in Chains should be essential reading for everyone
inside and outside the academy concerned with the increasing and
foreboding militarization of the world,… Giroux’s call for a
pedagogy of critical conviction, political engagement and social
intervention is imperative in the continuing struggle to overcome
practical politics powerlessness, reclaim public space as a
democratic sphere, and break the chain of injustice and
oppression.”
—Scott D. Morris, College of Education and Technology at Eastern
New Mexico University, in Dissident Voice
“Henry A. Giroux has done it again. In his usual passionate and
inspiring mode of intensive scrutiny, theoretical engagement, and
faith in the future of social change, he has diagnosed, diagrammed,
and interrogated a glaring political problem of our times. … The
University in Chains employs new research and concepts in
humanities scholarship in order to explain the deepening assault on
democracy instigated through the War on Terror, the expansion of
neoliberalism, and the influence of ideological fundamentalism on
political life.”
—Robin Truth Goodman in American Book Review
“… In this book, Giroux proves that he is not simply an engaged
intellectual, but an intellectual whose work has been dedicated to
salvaging the public sphere (that is, the academy) within an
inclusive democracy. Giroux urges us to believe that higher
education represents one of the most important sites over which the
battle for democracy is being waged.”
—Sheila L. Macrine, Montclair State University, in Academe,
American Association of University Professors
“Henry Giroux is a tribune for democracy. He sees universities as
democratic public spheres that must be defended in the repressive
aftermath of 9/11. His new book is a tool we need to get the job
done.”
—Ira Shor, CUNY Graduate School
“Henry Giroux has been like a canary in the mine of U.S.
culture—when he sends an alert, you know something is really amiss.
If you have worked or studied in one of our universities, this is
essential reading.”
—Toby Miller, author of Cultural Citizenship
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