Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Noam Chomsky, CBC Enterprises

CBC Enterprises, 1989 - 422 من الصفحات

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 cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing more democratic institutions) in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful participation in social and political life.

المحتوى

• The Bounds of the Expressible: 45
• Adjuncts of Government: 75
• The Utility of Interpretations: 105

نبذة عن المؤلف

Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community. Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War. Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies; CBC Massey lectures
• المؤلفون: Noam Chomsky, CBC Enterprises
• الناشر: CBC Enterprises, 1989
• أصلي من: جامعة ولاية بنسلفانيا
• الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي: 27 حزيران (يونيو) 2009
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 0887943411, 9780887943416
• عدد الصفحات: 422 من الصفحات