The Essential Chomsky
Written by the world’s leading philosopher, linguist, preeminent public intellectual, and critic, The Essential Chomsky contains an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of Noam Chomsky’s thoughts and insights. This book assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past 40 years. Chomsky brings together his groundbreaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his bestselling works Hegemony or Survival and Failed States, concerning subjects ranging from critiques of corporate media and U.S. interventionism to intellectual freedom and the political economy of human rights. The Essential Chomsky features a collection of twenty-five pieces of writing spanning six decades.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 1. A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior
- 2. Preface to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
- 3. Methodological Preliminaries
- 4. The Responsibility of Intellectuals
- 5. On-Resistance
- 6. Language and Freedom
- 7. Notes on Anarchism
- 8. The Rule of Force in International Affairs
- 9. Watergate: A Skeptical View
- 10. The Remaking of History
- 11. Foreign Policy and the Intelligentsia
- 12. The United States and East Timor
- 13. The Origins of the "Special Relationship"
- 14. Planning for Global Hegemony
- 15. The View Beyond: Prospects for the Study of Mind
- 16. Containing the Enemy
- 17. Introduction to The Minimalist Program
- 18. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
- 19. Intentional Ignorance and Its Uses
- 20. A World Without War
- 21. Reflections on 9-11
- 22. Language and the Brain
- 23. United States — Israel — Palestine
- 24. Imperial Grand Strategy
- 25. Afterword to Failed States
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Notes
- Select Bibliography of Works by Noam Chomsky
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Index