Essential Chomsky
One of the World's most prominent public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky has, in more than fifty years of writing on politics, philosophy, and language, revolutionized modern linguistics and established himself as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his most important writings since 1959-from his ground-breaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his bestselling works Hegemony or Survival and Failed...
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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.
Foreword viiA Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior 1Preface to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 31Methodological Preliminaries 33The Responsibility of Intellectuals 39On Resistance 63Language and Freedom 75Notes on Anarchism 92The Rule of Force in International Affairs 105Watergate: A Skeptical View 134The Remaking of History 141Foreign Policy and the Intelligentsia 160The United States and East Timor 187The Origins of the "Special Relationship" 198Planning for Global Hegemony 223The View Beyond: Prospects for the Study of Mind 232Containing the Enemy 257Introduction to The Minimalist Program 277New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind 285Intentional Ignorance and Its Uses 300A World Without War 325Reflections on 9-11 341Language and the Brain 347United States-Israel-Palestine 368Imperial Grand Strategy 373Afterword to Failed States 403Acknowledgments 415Permissions 417Notes 421Select Bibliography of Works Noam Chomsky 485Index 491
