Noam Chomsky Libros

El lingüista e intelectual estadounidense Noam Chomsky señala en esta obra las terribles consecuencias que puede tener la política imperialista de su país.

El llamado nuevo orden mundial, nos dice Chomsky, es como el viejo con otro disfraz. Sus reglas básicas siguen siendo las mismas: los débiles están sometidos a la fuerza de la ley, mientras los poderosos se sirven de la ley de la fuerza; se imponen a los pobres los principios de la "racionalidad económica", mientras los ricos se aprovechan del poder y de la intervención del estado. Chomsky desarrolla su razonamiento a través de la denuncia concreta de acontecimientos y situaciones, vistos en una cruda realidad que los medios de comunicación callan o disfrazan. Su reconsideración histórica de la guerra fría (que toma en cuenta los abusos y los crímenes de los dos bandos), el relato de los horrores de "la matanza del golfo", el desenmascaramiento del orden político-económico de Estados Unidos, le permiten explicar cómo funciona, después de la caída del muro, ese "gobierno del mundo" que garantiza el dominio universal de las naciones ricas (y el de los ricos sobre los pobres dentro de ellas) y ofrecernos un panorama realista del nuevo orden mundial en que estamos comenzando a vivir y de sus reglas de juego

En noviembre de 1971, la televisión holandesa transmitió un diálogo entre Noam Chomsky y Michel Foucault, moderado por Fons Elders, que se inscribía en la serie de encuentros organizados por el International Philosophers Project. Ya en la presentación del encuentro, y anticipando lo que posiblemente ocurriría, Elders caracterizó a los oponentes como -dos obreros que estuviesen perforando un túnel en una montaña, cada uno desde un lado opuesto, con instrumentos diferentes, y sin saber si se encontrarán-.

Critiquing U.S. military and economic actions globally, Chomsky and Robinson argue that the American pursuit of dominance has caused widespread chaos without enhancing national safety. They reveal how U.S. elites perpetuate myths about democracy to justify harmful foreign policies, with a focus on conflicts like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. The authors warn that these narratives are driving the U.S. toward dangerous confrontations with Russia and China, while also exacerbating threats like nuclear proliferation and climate change. This work serves as a critical examination of American ideals and their consequences.

An indispensable collection of lectures on the politic of power from the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the WorldNoam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. schovat popis

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?' Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society. 'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.' How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of 'common sense' is actually driven by the ruling classes' needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet? Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen connections between neoliberal 'common sense' and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.

Those who regard him as a "doom and gloom" critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics. Chomsky offers new and intimate details about his life-long experience as an activist, revealing him as a critic with deep convictions and many surprising insights about movement strategies. The book points to new directions for activists today, including how the crises of the Coronavirus and the economic meltdown are exploding in the critical 2020 US presidential election year. Readers will find hope and new pathways toward a sustainable, democratic world.

Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. The essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read and they educate.

The broad range and brilliance of Chomsky's thought and analysis is on full display in this collection of interviews with his long-time collaborator/interlocuter David Barsamian.

NATO’s war on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 was unleashed in the name of democracy and human rights. This view was challenged by the world’s three largest countries, India, China and Russia, who saw the bombing of Serbia and Kosovo as a naked attempt to assert US dominance in an unstable world.In the West, media networks were joined by substantial sectors of left/liberal opinion in supporting the war. Nonetheless, a wide variety of figures emerged to challenge the prevailing consensus. Their work, gathered here for the first time, forms a collection of key statements and anti-war writings from some of democracy’s most eloquent dissidents—Noam Chomsky, Harold Pinter, Edward Said and many others—who provide carefully researched examinations of the real motives for the US action, dissections and critiques of the ideology of ‘humanitarian warfare’, and chartings of the unnecessary tragedy of a region laid to waste in the pursuance of Great Power politics.This reader presents some of the most important texts on NATO’s Balkan crusade and forms a major intervention in the debate on global geo-political strategy after the Cold War.