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Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Paperback)
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Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Paperback)
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Giroux probes the depth and range of forces pushing the United
States into a new form of authoritarianism, one that connects the
Orwellian surveillance state with the forms of ideological control
made famous by Aldous Huxley. Addressing how neoliberalism, or the
new market fundamentalism, is shaping a range of registers from
language and memory to youth and higher education, Giroux explores
how education in a variety of spheres is transformed into a type of
miseducation perpetuated through what he calls a "disimagination
machine"-one that reproduces the present by either distorting or
erasing the past. But Giroux is not content to focus on how matters
of politics, subjectivity, power, and desire are colonized through
forms of miseducation; he is also concerned with the educative
nature of politics as the practice of freedom and how the emphasis
on critique must be matched by a politics and discourse of
resistance, hope, and possibility. This becomes particularly
evident in his chapters on Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. Thinking
Dangerously makes clear that at the heart of the struggle for a
radical democracy is the reviving of the radical imagination as the
basis for new forms of political and collective struggle. Probing
these issues through a series of interrelated essays and important
interviews, Giroux provides an accessible, layered, and sustained
example of how thinking dangerously is central to and connected
with the struggle over the radical imagination and the fight to
fulfill the promise of a radical democracy.
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