Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship

Informationen zum Autor Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor and a professor of linguistics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language; Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel; American Power and the New Mandarins; For Reasons of State; Problems of Knowledge and Freedom; Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship; Towards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan; The Essential Chomsky, edited by Anthony Arnove; and On Anarchism, and a co-author (with Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years and (with Michel Foucault) of The Chomsky-Foucault Debate, all published by The New Press. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Klappentext This classic analysis is Chomsky's powerful indictment of a liberal intelligentsia that provided self-serving arguments for war in Vietnam--legitimizing United States commitment to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia as the tasks of "pacification theory." Zusammenfassung Why did most of the American mainstream liberal intelligensia remain silent while atrocities were being committed in Vietnam? Chomsky's answer is that they not only participated, but provided the ideas that fuelled the war.

Product details

• Authors: Noam Chomsky
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781565848580
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-858-0
• No. of pages: 146
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Vietnam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Political science & theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)