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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 410 EAN: 9781595581891 ISBN: 1595581898 Label: New Press Manufacturer: New Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: February 12, 2008 Publisher: New Press Studio: New Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday. 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 dissidents, activists, scholars, and concerned citizens on subjects ranging from the media to human rights to intellectual freedom. In particular, Chomsky's scathing critiques of the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East have furnished a widely accepted intellectual inspiration for antiwar movements over nearly four decades. The Essential Chomsky assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past forty years. Here is an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of Chomsky's thought. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - too good for his britchesThis guy is such an elitist. From his current vantage of upperclass privilege, wealth, he makes his proclamations. Where does he come off being so superior? I read pieces of this book, but got way too irritated with his attitude and his content to go further. Yuck. Rating:  - The Essential ChomskyOut of ten most cited authors ever Chomsky is the only living one among them. Chomsky is essential! Rating: - A fitting tribute to a great intellectualThe Essential Chomsky is a comprehensive consummation of that great author's writings on language and politics. This forms a good background to read his other famous books like Understanding Power, Hegemony and Survival, Failed States etc. As ever, the readers will be spellbound to relaize from this collection the monumental intellectal efforts that went into producing all these Chomsky works. Readers would find how sincere a author can be through laborious collection of statistics ... Read More Rating: - "libidinous Power..."The "Chomskian Worldview" has to do, in part, with the ANARCHIC view that 1. POWER is ALWAYS illegitimate until, 2. it has justified its existence. 3. The "burden of proof," i.e., proving its legitimacy, is on POWER, NOT upon those in its thrall. Therefore, the U.S./Israeli power alliance agenda is illegitimate, via both the Nuremburg protocols and the U.N. charter which considers aggression THE cardinal prohibition. Libertarian Socialism--to which Chomsky espouses--is Anarchic in its praxis. ... Read More Rating: - Provokes both thought and actionSpanning several decades, this collection of articles is a fair representation of the opinions of someone who is responsible for instigating a lot of research into language theory as well as provoking many into political debate and action. A writer, researcher, political activist, or teacher does not have to always be right in order for them to be judged as effective, and Noam Chomsky is right about issues just as often as he is wrong. He is best when he is encouraging his readers to be skeptical, ... Read More 
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