Description: "The New Henry Giroux Reader presents Henry Giroux evolving body of work. It 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 in forms that could no longer be contained via isolated reviews of media, schooling, or pedagogical practice. Instead, Giroux locates these new discourses as a constellation of neoliberal influences on cultural practices, with education as the engine of their reproduction and their cessation."--
Brief description: Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Professorship in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge's Key Guides Publication Series. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the "12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think." He is a frequent contributor to online sources such as Truthout, Tikkun, CounterPunch, Truthdig, and Salon, and his research has appeared in numerous academic journals. In all, he has published over 400 scholarly articles. His most recent books include Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (Haymarket, 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights, 2014), Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America's Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), and The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019). Giroux is also a member of the Board of Directors at Truthout. His website is www.henryagiroux.com.
Review Quotes: "For four decades, Henry Giroux has transformed our understanding of politics, culture, and education. Throughout his career, he has founded critical pedagogy, brought cultural studies into education, transformed our understanding of the neoliberal and authoritarian remaking of K12 and Higher Education, and provided a powerful vision for the emancipatory struggle over contemporary institutions, the public sphere, and civil society. By emphasizing the pedagogical dimensions of culture and politics, Giroux's work highlights the centrality of learning for forging people's capacities to exercise democratic self-governance. At the current historical juncture, with rising authoritarianism, the dangerous decline of democracy, neoliberal cultures of cruelty, resurgent positivism, White supremacy, and technocratic control, Giroux's body of scholarship and public intellectual engagement creatively offers trenchant analyses and new theoretical tools to comprehend and impact the social world. Giroux's work is exactly what we need in the quest for a more democratic, just, and hopeful future."--Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth