Understanding Power
the indispensible chomsky
$51.03
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2002
Summary
Understanding Power: A Chomsky Reader
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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781565847033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1565847032 |
| Author: | Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel |
| Publisher: | The New Press |
| Imprint: | The New Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 235mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
“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“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
About The Author
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author recently of “Hopes and Prospects” (2010) and “Power and Terror” (Paradigm 2011). His articles and books revolutionized the contemporary study of linguistics and his political writings are widely read and translated throughout the world. In 2003 a profile of Chomsky in the “New Yorker” described his influence as one of the most cited scholars in history.
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