University in Chains: Confronting the Military-industrial-academic Complex (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594514227)

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. 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. 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. He concludes by making a strong case for reclaiming it as a democratic public sphere.

Author: Henry A. Giroux
ISBN-10: 1594514224
ISBN-13: 9781594514227
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2007
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.67h x 5.80w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2008 pg. 195