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THE CHOMSKY READER

by NOAM CHOMSKY and  edited by James Peck  

Published by Pantheon Books, New York 1987  Printing 

This book is a Pictorial Soft Cover in very good condition (faint crease) with  492 pages , index ,.

 FROM THE COVER === The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of America's leading dissident intellectual—"arguably the most important intellectual alive" (New York Times). At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's ideas—sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence.

Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this ever-critical mind—from global questions of war and peace to the most intricate questions of human intelligence, IQ, and creativity.

It reveals the underlying radical coherency of his view of the world—from his enormously influential attacks on America's role in Vietnam to his perspective on Nicaragua and Central America today.

Chomsky's chal­lenge to accepted wisdom about Israel and the Palestinians has caused a furor in America, as have his trenchant essays on the real nature of terrorism in our age. No one has dissected more graphically the character of the Cold War consensus and the way it benefits the two superpowers, or argued more thoughtfully for a shared elitist ethos in liberalism and communism.

No one has exposed more logically America's acclaimed freedoms as masking irre­sponsible power and unjustified privilege, or argued quite so insistently that the "free press" is part of a stultifying conformity that pervades all aspects of American intellectual life.

In a lengthy interview with the editor, Chomsky discusses his thought in the context of his personal history.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James Peck is the editor of China's Uninterrupted Revolution and The Indochina Story, both published by Pantheon.

CONTENTS INCLUDE

INTRODUCTION

PART I. INTERVIEW

PART II. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INTELLECTUALS

The Responsibility of Intellectuals       

Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship     

The Manufacture of Consent       

PART III. INTERPRETING THE WORLD

Language and Freedom Psychology and Ideology

Equality: Language Development, Human Intelligence, and Social Organization

PART IV. THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD

The Cold War 

The Old and the New Cold War  

At War with Asia     

The American Invasion of South Vietnam    

Afghanistan and South Vietnam  

Vietnam and United States Global Strategy  

Waging the War

After "Pinkville"        

Laos

The Mentality of the Backroom Boys  

Cambodia 

Punishing Vietnam    

East Timor        

Central America

Intervention in Vietnam and Central America: Parallels and Differences

El Salvador

Nicaragua

Guatemala

The Middle East

Rejectionism and Accommodation

NOTES

INDEX

9 -11   by NOAM CHOMSKY

Published by Seven Stories  Press ,New York  , 2002 

This book is a Pictorial Soft Cover in near fine condition ( previous owner name) with 140 pages.

EDITOR’S NOTE ===What follows is a set of interviews conducted with Noam Chomsky by a variety of interviewers during the first month following the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The interviews were conducted largely via email, many with foreign journalists who speak and write English as a second language.

Although some interviews were conducted as early as eight days after the attacks, edits, additions, and revisions consistent with the latest news continued up until the book left for the printer on October 15. As a result, interviews dated September may contain references to October events.

Furthermore, in the process of editing, sections were cut in which questions or answers were repeated between interviews.

However, occasionally a repeated fact or point has been intentionally left in, for emphasis.

 As Chomsky wrote me during the editing process, "These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops." == Greg Ruggiero New York City

CONTENTS INCLUDE

Editor's Note     

9-11

NOT SINCE THE WAR OF 1812       

IS THE WAR ON TERRORISM WINNABLE?

THE IDEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN    

CRIMES OF STATE

CHOICE OF ACTION       

CIVILIZATIONS EAST AND WEST         

CONSIDERABLE RESTRAINT?       

Appendix A  == DEPARTMENT OF STATE REPORT ON FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS (OCTOBER 5, 2001)

Appendix B == RECOMMENDED READING

About the Author 
 

HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL: AMERICA’S QUEST FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE  

by NOAM CHOMSKY

Published by Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt, New York 2004 

This book is a soft cover  in fine condition with 301 pages, index.

CONTENTS INCLUDE

Priorities and Prospects

Imperial Grand Strategy

The New Era of Enlightenment

Dangerous Times

The Iraq Connection

Dilemmas of Dominance

Cauldron of Animosities

Terrorism and Justice: Some Useful Truisms

A Passing Nightmare?

Notes

Index

FROM THE COVER === "It is possible that, if the United States goes the way of nineteenth-century Britain, Chomsky's inter­pretation will be the standard among historians a hundred years from now." — THE NEW YORKER

 AN IMMEDIATE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL DEMONSTRATES HOW, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing as in the Cuban missile crisis to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. World-renowned intellec­tual Noam Chomsky here investigates how we came to this perilous moment and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species.

 With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky tracks the USA government's aggressive pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" and vividly lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control-from unilateralism to the dismantling of international agreements to state terrorism—cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our existence. 

Lucidly written, thoroughly documented, and featuring a new afterword about the war in Iraq, Hegemony or Survival is a definitive statement from one of today's most influential thinkers.

 “With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us and to discern what they are leaving out. . . . Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening." — Business Week

 "If, for reasons of chance, or circumstance, (or sloth), you have to pick just one book on the subject of the American Empire, pick this one. It's the Full Monty. It's Chomsky at his best. Hegemony or Survival is necessary reading."— Arundhati Roy

INTRODUCING CHOMSKY

By John Maher & Judy Groves

Published by Icon Books , UK & Totem Books , USA 1996

This book is a Pictorial Soft Cover in fine condition with 176 pages & index ,lots of black and white illustrations .

FROM THE COVER === The epoch-making theories of linguist Noam Chomsky maintain that the human brain has an innate language faculty,and that part of this biological endowment is a "universal grammar", a theory of principles common to all languages.

Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children learn them are remarkably similar. Chomsky's book Syntactic Structures was a turning-point in 20th century linguistics, challenging assumptions in many areas such as philosophy, psychology and intellectual history.

Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society.

 Introducing Chomsky traces Chomsky's understanding of the cognitive realities involved in the use of language, and the technical apparatus needed to represent it.

The book also describes Chomsky's radical critique of the institutions of power and the pathways of oppression, and his commitment to freedom and justice.

He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chomsky is well-known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics.

Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political activist, an anarchist and a libertarian socialist intellectual.

In the 1950s, Chomsky started to develop the theory of generative grammar, which has had a profound influence on linguistics. He established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. His 1959 review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic  approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind.

Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He is a self-declared adherent of libertarian socialism which he regards as "the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980 – 1992 period, and was the eighth most-cited scholar.

Biography ==  Chomsky was born to Jewish parents in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hebrew scholar and IWW member William Chomsky (1896–1977), who was from a town in Ukraine. His mother, Elsie Chomsky (born Simonofsky), came from what is now Belarus, but unlike her husband she grew up in the United States and spoke "ordinary New York English".

Their first language was Yiddish, but Chomsky says it was "taboo" in his family to speak it. He describes his family as living in a sort of "Jewish ghetto", split into a "Yiddish side" and "Hebrew side", with his family aligning with the latter and bringing him up "immersed in Hebrew culture and literature".

Chomsky also describes tensions he personally experienced with Irish Catholics and anti-semitism in the mid-1930s, stating, "I don't like to say it but I grew up with a kind of visceral fear of Catholics. I knew it was irrational and got over it but it was just the street experience."

Chomsky remembers the first article he wrote was at age 10 while a student at Oak Lane Country Day School about the threat of the spread of fascism, following the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War. From the age of 12 or 13, he identified more fully with anarchist politics.

A graduate of Central High School of Philadelphia, in 1945 Chomsky began studying philosophy and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, learning from philosophers C. West Churchman and Nelson Goodman and linguist Zellig Harris. Harris's teaching included his discovery of transformations as a mathematical analysis of language structure (mappings from one subset to another in the set of sentences).

Chomsky subsequently reinterpreted these as operations on the productions of a context-free grammar (derived from Post production systems). Harris's political views were instrumental in shaping those of Chomsky. Chomsky received a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1951 from the University of Pennsylvania.

Chomsky received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He conducted part of his doctoral research during four years at Harvard University as a Harvard Junior Fellow. In his doctoral thesis, he began to develop some of his linguistic ideas, elaborating on them in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures, his best-known work in linguistics.

 Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy). From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and in 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor. As of 2008, Chomsky has taught at MIT continuously for 53 years.

 In February 1967, Chomsky became one of the leading opponents of the Vietnam War with the publication of his essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals",  in The New York Review of Books. This was followed by his 1969 book, American Power and the New Mandarins, a collection of essays which established him at the forefront of American dissent.

His far-reaching criticisms of US foreign policy and the legitimacy of US power have made him a controversial figure: largely shunned by the mainstream media in the United States,  he is frequently sought out for his views by publications and news outlets worldwide.

Chomsky has received death threats because of his criticisms of US foreign policy.  He was also on a list of planned targets created by Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber; during the period that Kaczynski was at large, Chomsky had all of his mail checked for explosives .

 He states that he often receives undercover police protection, in particular while on the MIT campus, although he does not agree with the police protection. Chomsky travels often, giving lectures on politics. 

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