World Orders Old and New von Chomsky, Noam

Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on numerous issues in linguistics and...

Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism,...

The seminal writings of the philosopher, activist, linguist and critic, published to coincide with his 80th birthday. 'Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities - and is...

Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell's problem--Chomsky again demonstrates his unequalled capacity to integrate vast amounts...

Global Discontents von Chomsky, Noam

In seinem Buch, Reflexionen über die Sprache, versucht Chomsky nicht die aktuelle linguistische Forschung darzustellen und voranzutreiben, sondern er fragt nach dem Sinn und Zweck dieser Forschung. Welches allgemeine Interesse haben die...

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of...

"Who Rules the World?" ist ein provokatives Werk des renommierten Linguisten und politischen Denkers Noam Chomsky. Das Buch untersucht die Machtstrukturen der Welt, insbesondere die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten in globalen...

"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light."-The New York Times Book ReviewThe United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against...

American Power and the New Mandarins von Chomsky, Noam

In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific...