Understanding Power : the indispensable Chomsky / Noam Chomsky
- Bib ID:
- 8038343
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chomsky, Noam, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Carlton North : Scribe Publications, 2002
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2002
- 1 online resource (432 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781921753923 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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Here is a major collection from 'arguably the most important intellectual alive' (the New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as US foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. Characterised by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.
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- Print version record
- Subject:
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- Chomsky, Noam -- Interviews
- Chomsky, Noam -- Political and social views
- Central government policies
- International relations
- Political leaders & leadership
- Political Science - History & Theory
- Political Science - International Relations - General
- Political Science - Leadership
- Political Science - Social Policy
- Political science & theory
- Politics & government
- Australian
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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