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Objectivity and liberal scholarship

Title: Objectivity and liberal scholarship / Noam Chomsky.
Author: Chomsky, Noam.
Publication: New York : New Press, 2003.

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ix, 131 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is Chomsky's powerful indictment of a liberal intelligentsia that provided self-serving arguments for war in Vietnam, legitimizing U.S. commitment to autocratic rule, to intervention in Asia and, ultimately, to the "pacification" of millions. Over thirty years after their first printing, these are prophetic words, as today America effects "regime change" in Iraq and an increasingly boisterous militarism around the globe. Included here is Chomsky's classic counter-analysis of the Spanish Civil War as a revolutionary war from below, as he lays bare the hostility of even liberal scholarly elites to engage in mass movements and social change, revealing not objectivity but its opposite - the use of ideology to mask self-interest and obeisance to power. Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is a crucial signpost of Chomsky's searing contribution to our age, and an indispensable lens through which to consider mainstream punditry today."--Jacket.

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Note

Originally published as part of American power and the new mandarins. Pantheon Books, New York, 1969.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-131).

ISBN

1565848586
9781565848580

LCCN

00272494

OCLC

ocm53129943
53129943
SCSB-14470303

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Princeton University Library