Noam Chomsky Howard Zinn Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy. After the war, many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Studies took jobs in the burgeoning postwar structure of university-based military research and intelligence agencies, bringing large infusions of government money into many fields.
The essays in this text explore what happened to the university in these...
The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The effort to mobili...
Described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky s most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic s most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought.
In Part I, Language and Responsibility (1979), Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic...
Described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly...
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky s recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during...
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audi...
"American Power and the New Mandarins" is Noam Chomsky s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals the new mandarins who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese...
"American Power and the New Mandarins" is Noam Chomsky s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statement...
This prescient and timely book documents Noam Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, in May 2006, to lecture on U.S. imperialism and the imminent crises facing the Middle East two months before Israel orchestrated major military campaigns against Lebanon and Palestine. During his visit, he met with political leaders including those of Hizbullah toured refugee camps, and inspected a former Israeli prison and torture compound.
Inside Lebanon describes Chomsky s journey and situates it within the tragically altered context of Lebanon and Palestine before and after the war of 2006. Chomsky s essays...
This prescient and timely book documents Noam Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, in May 2006, to lecture on U.S. imperialism and the imminent crises facin...
"Absolutely indispensable An important resource in the struggle." Ken Loach, film director "Your book is just what we need at time when the American Left gets no coverage in the world's press and yet remains the hope for America and the world." Tony Benn, President, Stop the War Coalition " This book] challenges the simplistic perception of Americans as SUV-driving, war-loving couch potatoes. There's a movement for peace and justice and this book gives it a voice." Mickey Z., writer With contributions by five Nobel Peace Prize winners, former government officials, scholars, religious...
"Absolutely indispensable An important resource in the struggle." Ken Loach, film director "Your book is just what we need at time when the American ...
Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experiences and external influences?
Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experie...
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States. Chomsky s many bestselling works including Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival, Understanding Power, and Failed States have served as essential touchstones...
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the m...
'Colombia is the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the hemisphere. The sources are deeply rooted in Colombia's own history, and in policies of the hegemonic power that are no less deeply rooted in its own history and institutions. This study provides a uniquely perceptive analysis of the tragic interaction, and its far-reaching implications for understanding the past and the evolving global order' - Noam Chomsky 'US administrations keep finding new excuses for intervening in Latin American affairs. Colombia is the most blatant example, as Doug Stokes' trenchant account of the US's...
'Colombia is the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the hemisphere. The sources are deeply rooted in Colombia's own history, and in policies of the heg...
An enormous chronological collection of over fifty interviews conducted with Chomsky from 1968 to present day. Many of the pieces have never appeared in any other collection, some have never appeared in English, and more than one has been suppressed. This expanded edition contains fifty pages of brand new interviews.
The interviews add a personal dimension to the full breadth of Chomsky s impressive written canon equally covering his analysis in linguistics, philosophy, and politics. This updated, annotated, fully indexed new edition contains an extensive bibliography, as well as an...
An enormous chronological collection of over fifty interviews conducted with Chomsky from 1968 to present day. Many of the pieces have never appear...
