Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian - Softcover

Chomsky, Noam; Barsamian, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962883883 ISBN 13: 9780962883880

Publisher: Common Courage Press, 2002

Synopsis

An Accessible Overview of Noam Chomsky's Political Thought.

Chomsky feels the abuses, cruelty and hypocrisies of power more intensely than anyone I know. It's a state of continual alertness. Often, after I've glanced at a story in the paper and skipped rapidly over the familiar rubble of falsification, a week or two later will drop into my mailbox a photocopy of that same story marked up by Chomsky, with sentences underlined and a phrase or two in the margin etched deep into the paper by an angry pen.

What Chomsky offers is a coherent "big picture," buttressed by the data of a thousand smaller pictures and discrete theaters of conflict, struggle and oppression.... For hundreds of thousands of people--over the years, he must have spoken to more American students than any person alive--Chomsky has offered the assurance, the intellectual and moral authority, that there is another way of looking at things. In this vital function he stands in the same relationship to his audience as did a philosopher he admires greatly, Bertrand Russell.

-Alexander Cockburn, from his introduction "Excavating the Truth"

About this title

About the Author:

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author of many books on U.S. foreign policy.

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"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. That's your choice." (Noam Chomsky on Human Freedom)

About this edition

• Publisher: Common Courage Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0962883883
• ISBN 13: 9780962883880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416