Noam Chomsky
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En este libro, Noam Chomsky expone las causas de la invasión de Ucrania iniciada por Rusia en febrero de 2022, partiendo de dos premisas fundamentales: por un lado, estamos ante «un grave crimen de guerra por el que hay que buscar explicaciones, pero que no tiene ni justificaciones ni atenuantes»; por el otro, estamos asistiendo a un movimiento expansivo de la OTAN hacia el este, que merece ser destacado y analizado.
A lo largo de ocho entrevistas...
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Qui sommes-nous? Que pouvons-nous savoir? Que nous est-il permis d'espérer? En réfléchissant à ces trois questions classiques, Noam Chomsky présente dans cet essai un tour d'horizon de l'ensemble de sa pensée.
Revenant sur sa conception du langage et de l'esprit, puis de la société et de la politique, Noam Chomsky conclut son brillant exposé par un plaidoyer pour ce qu'il appelle le «socialisme libertaire», qu'il lie à l'anarchisme et...
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A fictitious and satirical chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African-Americans-his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, The History follows the letters of loose cannon Congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors,...
4) On Palestine
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against
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Entre los intelectuales de izquierda, Noam Chomsky se distingue por su especial relación con el activismo, y por ser él mismo un activista político de larguísimo recorrido, además de un crítico implacable y clarividente. En este libro, que puede leerse como el legado de Chomsky a los activistas de hoy y de mañana, el intelectual estadounidense repasa por primera vez toda una vida de compromiso político, analizando con la agudeza acostumbrada...
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In his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing...
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"The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and...
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"The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international...
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""Chomsky is a global phenomenon. perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."--New York Times Book Review"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US military's global Interventions. Shock and awe!"--Vanity FairBecause We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative...
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A collection of interviews with the world's leading public intellectual from the time of the rise of Donald Trump to power to the end of his presidency. In it, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies for average Americans, the environment and the planet on the whole, respectively, and captures the dynamics and contradictions operating in today's USA--from the brutal class...
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In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts an eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run...
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From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous countries...
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Les entretiens avec Noam Chomsky rassemblés dans ce recueil ont été menés par C.J. Polychroniou entre 2018 et avril 2022. Le grand intellectuel et militant y parle de la fin et des séquelles du trumpisme, du dangereux centrisme de Biden et de l'espoir que représentent Sanders et Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aux États-Unis. Il commente aussi la gestion de la pandémie de coronavirus, la crise climatique et les risques toujours plus élevés d'un...
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Dans ce livre empreint d'un sentiment d'urgence, Noam Chomsky dresse l'inventaire des horizons possibles, «menaçants» ou «exaltants», de ce jeune XXIe siècle. Au fil d'une analyse fine des événements politiques des dernières années, il met à nu les rouages de la mécanique implacable de l'impérialisme américain, mécanique qui plonge des peuples entiers dans le désarroi. Il montre ainsi que l'indépendance politique et l'État demeurent...
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Noam Chomsky's back pocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy-one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson's...
17) 11 de Septiembre
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En 11 de septiembre Noam Chomsky disecciona las causas de raíz de la catástrofe del 11 de septiembre, sus precedentes históricos, y las posibles consecuencias mientras el mundo se mueve hacia la realidad de después del 11 de septiembre.
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An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "America's most useful citizen." -The Boston Globe
In this new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise...
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The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.
A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas.
In precise yet accessible language,...
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La obra monumental de Noam Chomsky ha merecido en 1988 el premio Kyoto, el equivalente al Nobel para "ciencia básica". Chomsky ha estudiado sobre todo dos temas: el "problema de Platón" (¿cómo sabemos tanto a partir de tan pocos datos?) y el "problema de Orwell" (¿cómo se logra que cerremos los ojos a datos obvios?). Publicadas aquí en dos volúmenes, que corresponden a estos dos problemas, estas conferencias para un público no especializado...