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Powers and Prospects

Powers and Prospects

Noam Chomsky

(2016)

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Abstract

From East Timor to the Middle East, from the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects is a vital compilation of Chomsky's writings on a broad array of subject material. Chomsky lifts the veil of distortions that conceals the workings of history and social policy, and reveals how the 'new' world order is little more than a remarketing of the old. No admirer of Chomsky can afford to be without this timeless selection of his thought.

First published in 1996.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Cover
Contents v
Foreword vii
Preface xi
1. Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes 1
2. Language and Nature 41
3. Writers and Intellectual Responsibility 71
4. Goals and Visions 91
5. Democracy and Markets in the New World Order 121
6. The Middle East Settlement: Its Sources and Contours 171
7. The Great Powers and Human Rights: the Case of East Timor 219
8. East Timor and World Order 265
Endnotes 289
Index 303