Henry Giroux

In Capitalism and Culture, Henry Giroux argues that culture has now become the central front in a global struggle for democracy. Drawing on thinkers from Bourdieu and Gramsci to Stuart Hall and Edward Said, Giroux exposes how capitalism and authoritarianism now fuse into a single 'disimagination machine' — one that erases memory, normalises cruelty and trains citizens to accept injustice as common sense. Across essays and interviews, he shows that fascism is not only a political or economic project but a cultural one, sustained through spectacle, distraction and the control of language, media, and technology. Yet culture also holds the means of resistance: it can awaken conscience, preserve memory and cultivate the imagination necessary for solidarity and change. Giroux calls for a renewed cultural and pedagogical revolution — one that reclaims education, art, and media as spaces for civic courage and hope. Against the culture of cruelty, he urges the creation of a culture of freedom. Capitalism and Culture is an essential manifesto for artists, educators, curators and citizens who see culture not as entertainment but as the ground on which democracy itself will stand or fall.

Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in the modern world. For those who follow his considerably influential work in critical pedagogy and social criticism, this first-ever collection of his classic writings, augmented by a new essay, is a mus

In a searing takedown of the populist authoritarian vision of America, The Terror of the Unforeseen tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump’s presidency. Through the mendacious exchange of facts for “fake news,” Henry A. Giroux examines the language of hatred that activates neoliberal fascism, complete with state-sanctioned racism, casino capitalism, and fear-mongering at federal and local levels. In this “age of disposability,” Trump’s rhetoric eschews reason and democratic principles in favor of impetuous politics rooted in bigotry, all to injuriously catastrophic effect. Through protests, strikes, and education, Giroux proposes an international social movement that joins together various modes of resistance to illuminate a democratic renewal, and proves himself once again as one of the great public intellectuals of our time.

A collection of essays on theory, pedagogy and culture. The author addresses the culture of positivism and technocratic rationality, and then expands the theoretical framework for conceptualizing and implementing his version of critical pedagogy. The final section explores contemporary issues.

Lays bare the ideological and political character of the positivist rationality undergirding educational research