Produktdetails
Titel: Public Spaces, Private Lives: Beyond the Culture of Cynicism
Autor/en: Henry A. Giroux
ISBN: 0742515532
EAN: 9780742515536
Sprache: Englisch.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
31. August 2001 - gebunden - 208 Seiten
Beschreibung
Public Spaces, Private Lives argues for a new language of engaged hope, political action, and democratic public participation. In an era when Americans regard politicians and government cynically, this book challenges the assumption that politics is dead--and shows why and how citizens must claim a revitalized role in American public and democratic institutions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Introduction: Collective Hopes in the Age of Privatized Visions Chapter 2 Cultural Studies and the Culture of Politics: Beyond Polemics and Cynicism Chapter 3 Youth, Domestic Militarization, and the Politics of Zero Tolerance Chapter 4 Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders:Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence Chapter 5 Pedagogy of the Depressed Chapter 6 "Something's Missing": From Utopianism to a Politics of Educated Hope Chapter 7 Afterword: Reading Giroux: Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Radical Democracy Chapter 9 Notes Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 Afterword: Reading Giroux: Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Democracy
Portrait
Henry A. Giroux is Waterbury Chair of Education at Pennsylvania State University and author of numerous books and articles on society, education, and political culture, including most recently, The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence and Channel Surfing.
Pressestimmen
Henry Giroux's Public Spaces, Private Lives is a passionate and informed call-to-arms for scholars, students, and citizens alike. Drawing from the most progressive and appealing aspects of the cultural studies tradition, and willing to take on sacred cows left and right, Giroux makes a penetrating critique of the decay of contemporary society, and points toward a revitalization of public life. This clearly written and lucidly argued book deserves the widest possible readership.--Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign