The Essential Chomsky (New Press Essential) - Softcover

Noam Chomsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595581898 ISBN 13: 9781595581891

Publisher: The New Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT and the author of numerous books including Chomsky vs. Foucault: A Debate on Human Nature, On Language, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, and Towards a New Cold War (all published by The New Press). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Review:

"I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it."
—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival

"Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism."
—Edward Said

"A rebel without a pause."
—Bono

"Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive."
—The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1595581898
• ISBN 13: 9781595581891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 515
• Editor: Anthony Arnove