Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18190 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Chomsky for the new or old reader
Chomsky extracts well chosen , giving a broad overview of his excellent writing, from familar politics and linguistics and enough long passages to give depth too.

The Essental Chomsky
The Essential Chomsky does what it states in the title. For people interested in the history of politics and the decision making process this is essetial reading. It is magnificient in it's scope and captures the thoughts of the day as they were occurring with some hindsight. For a real understanding of the conflict around the world as it exists now you couldn't have a guide that is so well informed and objective. This is yet another essential read from a great writer.

Chomsky nil
Chomsky has proved wrong and/or self-contradictary a/o deliberately false as well as giving fallacious, meretricous, and irrelevant sources in his linguistic theories, as in his political theses.

Read Chomsky by all means, but beware.

Better still, check out what he has described and/or predicted and the reality.

This is a dangerously deluded self-designted fake messiah.