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The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (The Radical Imagination) | 
| Author: Henry A. Giroux
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Category: Book
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1594514232
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.73
EAN: 9781594514234
ASIN: 1594514232
Publication Date: July 30, 2007
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President Eisenhower originally included academic in the draft of his landmark, 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. His newest book 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. Giroux argues that the university has become a handmaiden of the Pentagon and corporate interests, it has lost its claim to independence and critical learning and has compromised its role as a democratic public sphere. And yet, in spite of its present embattled status and the inroads made by corporate power, the defense industries, and the right wing extremists, 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 agents and concluded by making a strong case for reclaiming it as a democratic public sphere.
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Stepping on Democracy's Head August 27, 2007
Adam Fletcher (Olympia, WA USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Henry Giroux has written a book for the ages by daftly examining the impacts and effects of history on America today. Framing his argument with the prophetic words of Dwight Eisenhower's farewell speech to the American public, Giroux details the thorough and heinous complicities of current practices and policies throughout the American higher education system in conjunction with those of the military industry. The dubiousness of the publicly-funded University of Illinois's for-profit campus is given new light through Giroux's famous analysis of the new neoliberalism griping colleges and universities, particularly in light of the ongoing terror of the Bush Administration's Iraq War. Perhaps most powerful are the radical implications Giroux concludes: rather than simply influencing college research or widening the gap between the haves and have nots in America today, the military-industrial-academic complex is destroying the very foundations of American democracy. We have no choice rather than respond; Giroux gives us more than ample reason and recommendations for what to do next.
Tour de Force August 12, 2007
D. morris (new mexico)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Henry Giroux's latest is a crucial contribution to our understanding of US culture, US politics and US education in an increasingly militarized society.
"The University in Chains" is a stunning tour-de-force that rigorously examines the multi-tiered military, corporate and right-wing assaults on the university and culture. Giroux writes with a clarity and urgency that is riveting; his impassioned concern for education, human rights and meaningful democracy is inspiring; and, importantly, his critical insights into how we can break the chains and transform the university into a substantive democratic public space committed to providing students and citizens with tools and skills to address our most pressing problems are empowering and necessary.
The book is essential reading for everyone inside and outside the academy concerned with the increasing and foreboding militarization of the world, the corporate takeover of every corner of human life, and the narrowing ideological impositions of right-wing "super-patriot" fundamentalists. The book moves crucially from critique to a call for intervention and is therefore indispensable for those attentive to the need for fighting back, as well as those interested in matters of pedagogy, public education, social justice, human rights, and producing a meaningful democratic vision, culture and practice.
The section on "The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy" is an invigorating and powerful statement that brings much depth and meaning to the practice and theory of critical pedagogy. It will help those both familiar and unfamiliar with critical pedagogy gain a deeper grasp, and one hopes, commitment.
If you are a student, teacher, professor, or citizen READ THIS BOOK carefully, and share it widely. It is a vital contribution toward a path to a more decent and meaningful human existence for all.
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