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The university in chains : confronting the military-industrial-academic complex / Henry A. Giroux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giroux, Henry A.
- Series:
- Radical imagination series
- The radical imagination series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Higher education and state--United States.
- Higher education and state.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Militarism--United States.
- Militarism.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 223 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2007]
- Summary:
- President Eisenhower originally included "academic" in the draft of his oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex--and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America. In his gripping journalistic style, Giroux details the sweeping post-9/11 assault being waged on the academy by militarization, corporatization, and right-wing fundamentalists who increasingly view critical thought itself as a threat to the dominant political order. He brings to light surprising details of how universities are pulled into the machinations of the national security state. Giroux defends the university as one of the few public spaces left capable of raising important questions and educating students to be critical and engaged participants in democracy.
- Contents:
- Introduction : challenging the military-industrial-academic complex after 9/11
- Arming the academy : higher education in the shadow of the national security state
- Marketing the university : corporate power and the academic factory
- The new right-wing assault on higher education : academic unfreedom in America
- Breaking the chains : a strategy to retake the university.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594514227
- 1594514224
- 9781594514234
- 1594514232
- OCLC:
- 86038285
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