Making the Future - Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau­reate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numer­ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival , Failed States , and Who Rules the World? . Klappentext Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism , Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine . Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. Zusammenfassung Features articles that examine numerous topics, including the financial crisis, Obama's presidency, WikiLeaks and the conflicts in the Middle East. Restating and refining the author's commitment to democracy and finding inspiration in the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, this book offers his fiercely-argued comment on a fast-changing world.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau­reate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numer­ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Noam Chomsky
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.09.2012
• EAN: 9780241952580
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95258-0
• Seiten: 317
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 178 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Globalization, Climate Change, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, Colonialism & imperialism, International Economics, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Colonialism and imperialism, Palestine, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Nuclear weapons, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Human rights, civil rights, Demonstrations & protest movements, North Korea