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Bezig met laden... It is the Responsibility of Intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose liesdoor Noam Chomsky
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As fresh as the day it was baked The premise of this 50 year old essay is simply that “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies”. In it, Noam Chomsky spreads a buffet of official lies, coverups, half-truths and self-serving prejudices to show how extraordinarily badly the West has treated the world. The era was the Viet Nam War (it first appeared in the New York Review of Books in 1967), which was so obviously a fraud that a generation of Americans actually mobilized against it. Since then, things have settled into a largely blind acceptance, and the essay needs a new round of exposure. “Since we often cannot see what is happening before our eyes, it is perhaps not too surprising that what is at a slight distance is utterly invisible.” That’s where intellectuals’ responsibility comes in. The book is a finely crafted effort to attack and destroy various pseudo-intellectuals in various American governments, emphasizing their stature and influence in sending the country down a disgusting path of destruction, poverty and slaughter overseas. As usual, there are fireworks galore. Chomsky cites several experts who show that Osama bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, causing the US to waste a good $4 trillion on endless unsuccessful wars, while radicalizing Islam to jihad and terrorism as he alone could never do. They say America is still bin Laden’s greatest ally, long after his death. Truth hurts. All the more reason to tell it. David Wineberg geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky s essay eviscerated the 'hypocritical moralism of the past' and exposed the shameful policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying it. Also included in this volume is the brilliant 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux,' written on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, which makes the case for using privilege to challenge the state. As relevant now as it was in 1967, Chomsky reminds us that 'privilege yields opportunity and opportunity confers responsibilities.' All of us have choices, even in desperate times. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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A lo largo de su trayectoria política, Chomsky ha abordado de manera directa la cuestión de cuál es la verdadera responsabilidad de los intelectuales en dos ocasiones, dos escritos ya canónicos dentro de su prolífica obra, recogidos en este volumen y acompañados de un nuevo prefacio del autor. A finales de los años sesenta, al calor de la guerra de Vietnam, Chomsky denunciaba las vergonzosas políticas del Gobierno estadounidense y el no menos vergonzante papel de ciertos intelectuales al respaldarlas. En 2011, tras el «asesinato planificado» de Osama bin Laden, reflexionaba sobre la pertenencia de los intelectuales a la clase de los privilegiados y su obligación de cuestionar a las autoridades. Más relevante hoy que nunca, este libro nos recuerda que los privilegios «brindan oportunidades, y las oportunidades conllevan responsabilidades». Todos tenemos elección, incluso en tiempos desesperados.