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Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Noam Chomsky; Agio Pereira (Foreword)
Pages: 244ISBN: 0-89608-535-X
Format: paper
Release Date: 1996-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
This unique collection showcases Noam Chomsky’s brilliant and boundless insight into a wide range of topics of critical importance, from human nature and language to international politics and the New World Order.
This collection of original essays offers a bridge between Chomsky’s political and philosophical/linguistic writing. Powers and Prospects includes a rare, much-sought-after piece on Chomsky's own personal and political "goals and visions."
Chomsky’s linguistics chapters are accessible and interesting to the lay reader, and offer a good introduction to Chomsky’s philosophy of language and science.
The chapters on politics provide an important and necessary critique of the political and social status quo, and address key issues of the day: the Middle East "peace process," East Timor, and the global economy.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Agio Pereira
Preface
1 Language and Thought
2 Language and Nature
3 Writers and Intellectual Responsibility
4 Goals and Visions
5 Democracy and Markets in the New World Order
6 The Middle East Settlement
7 The Great Powers and Human Rights
8 East Timor and World Order
Noam Chomsky
Click here to view Noam Chomsky's full Author PageNoam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, scholar, and political analyst. Born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chomsky became politically conscious at a very young age, writing his first political article, on the fight against fascism in Spain, when he was only ten years old.
His 1957 work Syntactic Structures revolutionized the field of linguistics, fundamentally changing the current understanding of language and mind. Chomsky joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955, and in 1976 was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on linguistics, philosophy, international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and other contemporary political issues. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Z Magazine, CAQ, and numerous political and scholarly publications.
Chomsky's groundbreaking work on Palestine and the Middle East, East Timor, the Gulf War, and the mass media have gained international attention. As evidence of his broad appeal and importance, he was the subject of the award-winning 1993 film “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media,” and excerpts from his speeches have appeared on the b-side of a single by the band Bad Religion.
Chomsky books with South End Press include Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and Palestine and Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies among others.