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Whereas This Fist Called My Heart, the first Peter McLaren reader (2016), offers a window into the development and reorientation of McLaren's work over time, Tracks to Infinity emphasizes the significance of orientation in his contemporary work. McLaren's earlier work was oriented toward the idea of a contradictory postmodern subjectivity located outside the increasingly fragmented, indeterminate late capitalist society. If the concept of the critical subject or change agent is perceived to be simultaneously located both inside and outside of the world that exists, however mundane, it begins to appear as a utopian or idealist construction.
While discourse is indeed important, locating the revolutionary potential exclusively within the abstract realm of language or the sign can lead to a disconnected relationship with the concreteness of everyday struggle. As the fog of the disembodied, postmodern subject began to lift, McLaren reoriented his engagement with and gaze toward the concrete value-creating laborer as the active agent of revolutionary educations' process of becoming—collectively becoming something other than abstract labor. This volume is filled with deep engagements with the concreteness of lived experience juxtaposed next to the bourgeois propaganda of the capitalist class political establishment as manifested in the Trump era.
Contents
Preface: A Collection of Raw Materials for Re-imaginings; Derek R. Ford & Rebecca Alexander.
Foreword: Peter's Return to Marx; Mike Cole.
Introduction: McLaren's Proletarian Pedagogy; Curry Stephenson Malott, Marc Pruyn & Luis Huerta-Charles.
Chapter 1. Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Staking a Claim Against the Macrostructural Unconscious; Peter McLaren.
Chapter 2. The Defenestration of Democracy; Peter McLaren.
Chapter 3. Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy and the Struggle Against Capital Today; Peter McLaren, and Derek R. Ford.
Chapter 4. Critical Rage Pedagogy: From Critical Catharsis to Self and Social Transformation; Peter McLaren.
Chapter 5. Educación Pública, Democracia y la Pedagogía Crítica Revolucionaria; Peter McLaren and Luis Huerta-Charles.
Chapter 6. The Despoiling of the American Mind; Peter McLaren.
Chapter 7. Carlos Bulosan: Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States (A Critical Appraisal); Peter McLaren.
Chapter 8. The Beat Goes On: Neoliberalism from Obama to Trump and Beyond; Peter McLaren and Pablo Cortés-González.
Chapter 9. Class Dismissed? Historical Materialism and the Politics of Difference; Peter McLaren and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale.
Chapter 10. Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality in, against, and beyond Contemporary Capitalism; Peter McLaren and Petar Jandrić.
Chapter 11. Marx's Nightmare; Peter McLaren.
Chapter 12. Theorizing the American Dream; Peter McLaren and Mitja Sardoč.
Chapter 13. What Unites Us; Peter McLaren and Vernon Smith.
Chapter 14. Afterword: The Travails of Criticality: Understanding Peter McLaren's Revolutionary Vocation; John Baldacchino.
Acknowledgements.
Attributions.
Biographies.
