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A collection of lectures by the "founder of modern linguistics" discusses fifty years of scientific development in the study of language as he expounds and criticizes a variety of theories. --Publisher's description.
"In clear, precise, and non-technical language, Chomsky elaborates on fifty years of scientific development in the study of language, sketching how his own work has implications for the origins of language, the close relations that language...
3) Power systems: conversations on global democratic uprisings and the new challenges to U.S. empire
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"In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and...
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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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2008
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The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his more important writings since 1959--from his ground-breaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his bestselling works Hegemoney or Survival and Failed States--concerning subjects ranging from critiques of corporate media and U.S. interventionism to intellectual freedom and the political economy of human rights. :l taken from back of book.l
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Neste livro, o influente linguista Noam Chomsky e seu colega de longa data, Andrea Moro, têm uma conversa abrangente, abordando tópicos como linguagem e linguística, história da ciência e a relação entre linguagem e cérebro. Moro instiga Chomsky a falar sobre a euforia equivocada atual em relação à inteligência artificial (Chomsky vê "muita propaganda e exagero" vindos do Vale do Silício), o estudo do cérebro (Chomsky destaca que descobertas...
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Dans cette série d'entretiens menés avec celui que l'on associe volontiers à la «conscience morale» des Américains, celui-ci s'exprime sur des sujets qui sont emblématiques de l'inquiétante époque dans laquelle nous sommes entrés il y a quelque temps: Trump, la Russie de Poutine, l'Europe, la crise des migrants, la montée de l'intégrisme religieux. À 88 ans, Chomsky regarde le monde en proie à des régimes autoritaires et totalitaires,...
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"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light." -The New York Times Book Review
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other...
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Because 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 to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, nuclear politics, cyberwar, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan,...
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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...
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Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from "perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet" (The New York Times Book Review).
In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go...
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Les discussions et conférences rassemblées dans ce livre offrent une perspective profonde et généreuse pour comprendre l'état du monde, et notamment les enjeux liés au pouvoir. Y sont abordés le fonctionnement des médias, les systèmes d'éducation, la crise environnementale, le complexe militaro-industriel, la mondialisation, les stratégies militantes, et plus encore. Comprendre le pouvoir couvre ainsi l'intégralité de la pensée de Noam...
13) On Anarchism
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On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the...
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« Qui mène le monde ? Cette interrogation en soulève une autre : quels principes et quelles valeurs mènent le monde ? Cette question devrait préoccuper en premier lieu les citoyens des pays riches et puissants. Ceux-ci jouissent en effet d'une liberté, de privilèges et de possibilités considérables, fruits des luttes de leurs prédécesseurs, et se trouvent devant des choix décisifs quant à la manière de répondre à des enjeux d'une importance...
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As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of Partisan Review and then of Politics. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that "intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments" and to analyze their "often hidden intentions." Originally published...
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While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimination of agricultural land for bio-fuel, the construction of dams, and the destruction of forests that are crucial for carbon sequestration.
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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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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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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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In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension ... of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."
In his stirring conclusion...