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Masters of mankind : essays and lectures, 1969-2013 / Noam Chomsky.

Title
Masters of mankind : essays and lectures, 1969-2013 / Noam Chomsky.
Author
Chomsky, Noam
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2014]

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167 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • "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 unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs of the many. An introduction by Marcus Raskin contextualizes Chomsky's place among some of the most influential thinkers of modern history"--
  • "In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many"--
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Alternative Title
Essays.
Subject
  • Chomsky, Noam 1928-
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights
  • State, The
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Liberty
  • Democracy
Genre/Form
Essays
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword by Marcus Raskin. Knowledge and power: intellectuals and the welfare-warfare state -- Exception to the rules -- Divine license to kill -- "Consent without consent": reflections on the theory and practice of democracy -- Simple truths, hard problems: some thoughts on terror, justice, and self-defense -- Human intelligence and the environment -- Can civilization survive really existing capitalism?
ISBN
  • 9781608463633
  • 160846363X
LCCN
^^2014035696
OCLC
885211827
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library