1st Edition
Challenges to Democracy In and Beyond Education American Policy, Politics, and Media in a Cynical Age
Introduction 1. Defining Cynicism: The Roots of a Political Disease 2. The Shifting Political Discourse: Do What I Say, Not What I Do 3. Inequality, Racism and the Psychology of Cynicism: White Resentment and Neopopulism Unite 4. The Scourge of Fake News (Aka Propaganda is Winning the War on Truth) 5. Educating Intolerance and Commodifying Knowledge: Schools in the Culture Wars’ Firing Line 6. Higher Education under Attack on Multiple Fronts: Neoliberalism, Neopopulism and the Cloistering of Knowledge 7. Representatives of the Political Subject in Popular Culture: Cultivating Cynicism through Our Heroes and Villains 8. Corporate Hegemony and the Struggle to Control the American Mind 9. Contesting Cynicism and Restoring Hope
Biography
Richard Van Heertum is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Arts and Sciences department at the New York Film Academy. He has previously taught at UCLA, CUNY, Drexel and the Art Institute, USA.
