The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Chomsky, Noam
The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Chomsky, Noam

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

In one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals' relative privilege...
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Author: Noam Chomsky
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Chomsky, Noam

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

$33.98
The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Chomsky, Noam

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

$33.98
Author: Noam Chomsky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals' relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility--one that was to be the guiding principle of his intellectual life

"Chomsky is a global phenomenon. . . . He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet." --The New York Times Book Review

As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of Partisan Review and then of Politics. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that "intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments" and to analyze their "often hidden intentions."

Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky's essay eviscerated the "hypocritical moralism of the past" (such as when Woodrow Wilson set out to teach Latin Americans "the art of good government") and exposed the destructive policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying them.

Chomsky then turns to the "war on terror" and "enhanced interrogation" of the Bush years in "The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux," an essay written on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. As relevant now as it was in 1967, The Responsibility of Intellectuals reminds us that "privilege yields opportunity and opportunity confers responsibilities."



Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: New Press
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781620973431

About the Author
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, he is also a political dissident who has written more than one hundred books. His New Press books include Understanding Power, On Anarchism, and The Essential Chomsky. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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