For Reasons of State – Noam Chomsky

For Reasons of State – Noam Chomsky|About the Book: For Reasons Of State Chomsky’s second major collection of political writings, following his pathbreaking American Power and the New Mandarins 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 is a major addition to the intellectual history of the Vietnam era. It 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 powers 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. About the Author: Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemeny or Survival, Imperial Ambitions and, with Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power, all published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. A professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, Chomsky is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.