Henry A. Giroux is University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster University, Canada. He is the author or co-author of 67 books including The Terror of the Unforeseen (2019), The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism (2018) and Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis (2021).

It is impossible to do justice to Giroux’s tremendous work … Take hold of the book, feel the weight of its historical reckoning in your hands … then venture into the depths of the human condition and the need for an educated escape.

• IntroductionPart I: Pedagogy as Cultural Politics1. Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History2. Rethinking Cultural Politics and Radical Pedagogy in the Work of Antonio Gramsci3. The Promise of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Globalization: Towards a Pedagogy of Democratization Part II: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth4. No Bailouts for Youth: Education and Pedagogy in an Era of Disposability5. Higher Education and the Politics and Pedagogy of Educated HopePart III: Neoliberalism, Public Pedagogy, and the Legacy of Paulo Freire 6. Neoliberalism and the Politics of Public Pedagogy7. Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical PedagogyPart IV: Critical Pedagogy Against the Plague of Fascism8. Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in the Post-Truth Age9. Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times10. Let's Shut Down the Authoritarian Machine11. Interview: Life in Zones of Social Abandonment, Henry Giroux and Brad EvansReferencesIndex

Henry A. Giroux is University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster University, Canada. He is the author or co-author of 67 books including The Terror of the Unforeseen (2019), The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism (2018) and Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis (2021).

It is impossible to do justice to Giroux’s tremendous work … Take hold of the book, feel the weight of its historical reckoning in your hands … then venture into the depths of the human condition and the need for an educated escape.

• IntroductionPart I: Pedagogy as Cultural Politics1. Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History2. Rethinking Cultural Politics and Radical Pedagogy in the Work of Antonio Gramsci3. The Promise of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Globalization: Towards a Pedagogy of Democratization Part II: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth4. No Bailouts for Youth: Education and Pedagogy in an Era of Disposability5. Higher Education and the Politics and Pedagogy of Educated HopePart III: Neoliberalism, Public Pedagogy, and the Legacy of Paulo Freire 6. Neoliberalism and the Politics of Public Pedagogy7. Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical PedagogyPart IV: Critical Pedagogy Against the Plague of Fascism8. Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in the Post-Truth Age9. Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times10. Let's Shut Down the Authoritarian Machine11. Interview: Life in Zones of Social Abandonment, Henry Giroux and Brad EvansReferencesIndex