For reasons of state /
Chomsky, Noam.
For reasons of state / Noam Chomsky ; [with new introduction by Arundhati Roy]. - New York : Penguin Book : 2003. - xlviii, 440 p. ; ill.; 21 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / The Backroom Boys -- The Wider War -- The Rule of Force in International Affairs -- Indochina: The Next Phase -- On the Limits of Civil Disobedience -- The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis -- Psychology and Ideology -- Notes on Anarchism -- Language and Freedom. Arundhati Roy -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"An essential record of Chomsky's political and social thought as it was sharpened on the upheavals in domestic and international affairs of the early 1970s, For Reasons of State includes articles on the war in Vietnam and the "wider war" in Laos and Cambodia, an extensive dissection of the Pentagon Papers, reflections on the role of force in international affairs, essays on civil disobedience and the role of the university, and a now-classic introduction to anarchism. These contributions reveal very different facets of Chomsky's power as a thinker, from his uncanny ability to join abstract philosophical considerations with the concrete political realities of his time, to his singular capacity to mount withering, fact-based critiques of American foreign policy." "The second installment in a series of early Chomsky books that The New Press will reissue in the coming years, For Reasons of State is a major addition to the intellectual history of the Vietnam era."--BOOK JACKET.
014303054x
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.
United States--Foreign relations--1969-1974.
321 / CHO-F 2003 800797
For reasons of state / Noam Chomsky ; [with new introduction by Arundhati Roy]. - New York : Penguin Book : 2003. - xlviii, 440 p. ; ill.; 21 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / The Backroom Boys -- The Wider War -- The Rule of Force in International Affairs -- Indochina: The Next Phase -- On the Limits of Civil Disobedience -- The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis -- Psychology and Ideology -- Notes on Anarchism -- Language and Freedom. Arundhati Roy -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"An essential record of Chomsky's political and social thought as it was sharpened on the upheavals in domestic and international affairs of the early 1970s, For Reasons of State includes articles on the war in Vietnam and the "wider war" in Laos and Cambodia, an extensive dissection of the Pentagon Papers, reflections on the role of force in international affairs, essays on civil disobedience and the role of the university, and a now-classic introduction to anarchism. These contributions reveal very different facets of Chomsky's power as a thinker, from his uncanny ability to join abstract philosophical considerations with the concrete political realities of his time, to his singular capacity to mount withering, fact-based critiques of American foreign policy." "The second installment in a series of early Chomsky books that The New Press will reissue in the coming years, For Reasons of State is a major addition to the intellectual history of the Vietnam era."--BOOK JACKET.
014303054x
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.
United States--Foreign relations--1969-1974.
321 / CHO-F 2003 800797