Noam Chomsky
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La obra monumental de Noam Chomsky ha merecido en 1988 el premio Kyoto, el equivalente al Nobel para la "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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En 2018, le journaliste allemand Emran Feroz a mené une série d'entretiens avec Noam Chomsky à l'université d'Arizona, près de la frontière avec le Mexique. Ce grand analyste de notre époque y discute notamment de ce qu'on a appelle à tort la «crise des migrants» et de l'impérialisme, du réchauffement planétaire et de la menace nucléaire, de la présidence de Donald Trump, de la responsabilité des intellectuels, des religions et de...
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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...
64) Por qué Ucrania
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En este libro, Noam Chomsky expone las causas de la invasión de Ucrania iniciada por Rusia en febrero de 2022, partiendo de dos premisas fundamentales: por un lado, estamos ante «un grave crimen de guerra por el que hay que buscar explicaciones, pero que no tiene ni justificaciones ni atenuantes»; por el otro, estamos asistiendo a un movimiento expansivo de la OTAN hacia el este, que merece ser destacado y analizado.
A lo largo de ocho entrevistas...
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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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Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and Class Warfare, all published by the independent publisher Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine.
This omnibus collection includes a new introduction by David Barsamian, looking back on conversations and engagement with Chomsky's ideas that now spans decades, as well as a classic essay by Alexander Cockburn on Chomsky that...
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Si nous voulons ébranler, voire abolir, les structures capitalistes qui menacent aujourd'hui toute vie sur la planète, Noam Chomsky et Marv Waterstone affirment avec force qu'il faut commencer par réévaluer les outils que nous utilisons pour interpréter le monde. C'est ce qu'ils démontrent dans ce livre tiré d'un cours qu'ils ont donné ensemble à l'université de l'Arizona, en faisant ressortir les liens souvent imperceptibles entre la fabrique...
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One of our greatest political minds "challenges us to think more independently and more deeply about the human consequences of power and privilege" (Norman Solomon, author of Made Love, Got War).
Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomsky's thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import. Chomsky offers insights into the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit....
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En este libro urgente y profundo, Noam Chomsky, uno de los grandes intelectuales de nuestra época y una poderosa voz moral a nivel mundial, junto al prestigioso economista Robert Pollin, estudioso de las causas del calentamiento global, analizan la economía política del cambio climático y su imbricación con el modelo neoliberal de producción y la globalización financiera.
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This "succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis" of Gaza's humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly).
While numerous books address Israel-Palestine conflict, Gaza in Crisis brings together two renowned thinkers-American activist Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé-to examine why this conflict has lasted so long, who can stop it, and how. Israel's Operation Cast Lead, a 2008...
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In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched, by the masters of capital to maintain and even, enhance the features of a dog-eat-dog society, to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people, against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and...
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Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War-and the media's manipulative coverage-by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government's suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, Africa and Latin America during the 1960s and 70s....
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El triunfo de Trump en Estados Unidos y el ascenso de la extrema derecha en Europa alertan sobre la emergencia de un "nuevo fascismo".
Un libro para entender, de la mano de los más prestigiosos analistas como Noam Chomsky, Chantal Mouffe, Ignacio Ramonet, Wolfgang Streeck, Judith Butler, entre otros, porqué este movimiento gana cada vez más adeptos en el resto del mundo.
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These cogent essays on linguistic theory explore Noam Chomsky's influential concept of generative grammar. The readings form a coherent outline of transformational theory, the distinguished author and educator's controversial challenge to structural linguistics. They rely chiefly on Chomsky's own words, but their arrangement is such that nonspecialists will have no difficulty in following the text. Topics include syntactic structure, features, and...
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„Niemand außer Noam Chomsky verbindet so leidenschaftlich die beiden vom Menschen verursachten Bedrohungen mit unserer Existenz – den katastrophalen Klimawandel und die nuklearen Weltuntergangsmaschinen." Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower der Pentagon-Papiere Eindrücklich wie nie zuvor klärt Chomsky über die existentiellen Bedrohungen durch Atomwaffen und den Klimawandel auf. Er stellt diese Bedrohungen in den Kontext einer nie dagewesenen globalen...
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Chomsky disecciona los diez principios fundamentales de la concentración de la riqueza y el poder en Estados Unidos, que a efectos prácticos han secuestrado la democracia en favor de los intereses de una élite políticofinanciera, sumiendo a un gran porcentaje de la población en la miseria y desesperanza más absolutas.
Con su habitual agudeza, Chomsky muestra cómo los principales excesos y rasgos espeluznantes de la realidad estadounidense...
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An interview with Noam Chomsky is a bit like throwing batting practice to Babe Ruth. What you lob in, he will hammer out.This conversational interview by Michael Albert, who has been close to Chomsky for roughly half a century and talked with him many hundreds of times, spans a wide range of topics including journalism, science, religion, the racist foundations of American society, education as indoctrination, issues of class and resistance, colonialism,...
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In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series of case studies-including...
80) The World Awaits
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Noted philosopher Noam Chomsky, world-renowned physician, author, and activist Helen Caldicott, and founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation David Krieger come together through interwoven interviews to create a narrative that addresses one of the most urgent needs of our planet: the modern dangers of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear terrorism in the world today. Relying on archival footage of presidents Barack Obama, John Kennedy, Dwight...