For Reasons of State

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"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
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"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.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780394483986
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 1/1/1973
  • Pages: 440

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 The Backroom Boys 3
2 The Wider War 172
3 The Rule of Force in International Affairs 212
4 Indochina: The Next Phase 259
5 On the Limits of Civil Disobedience 285
6 The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis 298
7 Psychology and Ideology 318
8 Notes on Anarchism 370
9 Language and Freedom 387
Bibliography 409
Index 429
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