Full Description
In response to this current political and economic climate, Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century defends the importance, and difficulties, of teaching Marx and critical theory—and the crucial insights of critical pedagogy—through variously original and republished chapters, which, each in their own ways, reflect on ways to teach and reach twenty-first century students. This volume presents unique perspectives on teaching Marx and critical theory in various contexts, sub-fields, and geographies, and underscores the need for students of the modern world to be versed in Marxist thought and for pedagogues to push the limits of critical pedagogical strategies in the classroom—and beyond.
Contributors include: Allan Ardill, Mary Caputi, Mauro Caraccioli, Zachary Casey, Ronald Cox, Kevin Funk, Maylin M. Hernandez, Douglas Kellner, Jess Morrissette, Sebastian Sclofsky, Bryant William Sculos, Sean Walsh.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction>
Part 1: Issues in Teaching Marx(ism)
1 The Specter That Haunts Political Science: the Neglect and Misreading of Marx in International Relations and Comparative Politics
Sebastián Sclofskyand Kevin Funk
2 Marxism and ipe
Ronald W. Cox
3 Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology
Bryant William Sculos and Sean Noah Walsh
4 Marxferatu: Introducing Marx through the Vampire Metaphor
Jess Morrissette
5 Neoliberal Feminist Monsters: Where to Find Them and How to Slay Them
Maylin M. Hernandez
Part 2: Rethinking Critical Theory & Critical Pedagogy
6 The "Great Refusal" Redux: Antidote to Mindless Syncopation
Mary Caputi
7 Deep Critique: Critical Pedagogy, Marxism, and Feminist Standpoint Theory in the Corporate Classroom
Allan Ardill
8 Pedagogies of Freedom: Exile, Courage, and Reflexivity in the Life of Paulo Freire
Mauro J. Caraccioli
9 The Materiality of Proletarian Subjectivity: Anticapitalist Antiracist Pedagogies for the 21st Century
Zachary A. Casey
10 Teaching Marx, Critical Theory, and Philosophy: Some Personal Reflections
Douglas Kellner
Coda: Inspiring Action: Rethinking the Public Function of Pedagogy
Index
