Book description
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.
Noam Chomsky
is Institute Professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT and the author of
numerous seminal books, including
Manufacturing Consent
,
Deterring Democracy
and
Hegemony or Survival
. He was voted the world's leading public intellectual in the 2005
Prospect/Foreign Policy poll. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
