The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky (PDF)

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The seminal writings of America’s leading philosopher, linguist, and political thinker—“the foremost gadfly of our national conscience” (The New York Times). For the past fifty years Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual as well as one of the most original political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, Chomsky has also secured a place among the most influential dissident voice in the United States. Chomsky’s many bestselling works—including Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival, Understanding Power, and Failed States—have served as essential touchstones for activists, scholars, and concerned citizens on subjects ranging from the media and intellectual freedom to human rights and war crimes. In particular, Chomsky’s scathing critique of the US wars in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East have furnished a widely accepted intellectual premise for antiwar movements for nearly four decades. The Essential Chomsky assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past half century. Here is an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of the thought that animates “one of the West’s most influential intellectuals in the cause of peace” (The Independent). “Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.” —The Guardian “Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.” —Edward Said “A rebel without a pause.” —Bono

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⭐It is a crime that the political elite have used the corporate media to muzzle Professor Chomsky’s valuable and time tested insights. Makes you wonder why someone who predicted the outcome of disastrous policies correctly would be silenced.

⭐Contains some of his best essays: the famous Skinner demolition from the New York Review of Books, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”, and “Foreign Policy and the Intelligentsia”. If only Sam Harris had read those last two! (Just kidding, the bloke’s too much of a lunatic to learn anything from Chomsky. Incidentally, Sam Harris is a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action. Thinks he’s a paragon of rationality and disinterested reason when he’s actually a mentally impaired zealot.) Apart from that brilliant material, however, I found the book to be wanting. I read the stuff on Anarchism but I just found it to be airy. He doesn’t actually say anything; he just quotes some famous anarchist thinkers saying vague things about liberty and so on. It’s weird how Chomsky often goes all gooey when he’s talking about anarchy and forgets to be the rigorous empiricist he normally is.Anyhow, buy this book. It really makes you appreciate how much of an intellectual luminary and genius Chomsky is. There is such a muscularity to his arguments sometimes. It’s so beautiful. And his face too. What a face. I just love looking at it. No, seriously, it inspires me. Chomsky inspires me so much, even though I know he hates the cult of the personality and would think me pathological for admiring him in this sycophantic, vaguely repellent way.

⭐There are many brilliant insights in this compendium. This should become a classic resource for poli-sci courses. I highly recommend this.

⭐brilliant!!!!!

⭐My father loves audio books, especially professora and world news , politics. He admires and enjoys all of Chomskeys books!

⭐written with uncommon eloquence, the research and the lucidity of the arguments is compelling.

⭐Mr. Chomsky is brilliant, blindingly articulate, and deserves an immense amount of attention and respect,but for my money any volume entitled Essential Chomsky should strike a much more even balance between his linguistic work and political work.I do not feel that this book is sufficiently representative of the likelihood that the evolution of language in primates, the impact of language on the social strucures of Homo Sapiens, and the monkey politics of our present day American condition are essentially all ‘of a piece’ in this great intellect.That’s my opinion, anyway…

⭐This is a collection of some of Chomsky’s most influential essays and articles, covering a wide range of topics from the role of intellectuals in the US, US foreign policy, Israel/Palestine, Anarchism, social movements, and a sampling of his linguistics work. Chomsky is one of the most profound and insightful social critics of our time, and this is a decent overview of his work.Since some of the essays are excerpts of chapters in his various books, some readers familiar with Chomsky may find it repetitive. For someone completely new to Chomsky, I would recommend “Understanding Power” as a much more comprehensive, readable place to start.

⭐The world needs this man. Reason? He is interested in FACTS unlike the Press and the elites who run this world.

⭐Outstanding work;)

⭐Very hard going but so interesting and informative. Worth persevering

⭐Compact. Must need new glasses. But if your a Chomsky fan. You must have it.

⭐No reviews needed!! It is by Noam!!

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