American Power And The New Mandarins
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At the height of the Vietnam War, one of the twentieth century's most incisive intellectual voices launched a devastating critique of American foreign policy and the academic establishment that enabled it. American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky's landmark collection of political essays, first published in 1969, that dissects the moral and ideological failures driving U.S. imperial ambition — from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the corridors of Washington. Chomsky argues with razor precision that a class of technocratic intellectuals — the new mandarins — had surrendered their critical independence to serve the machinery of state power, providing scholarly legitimacy to policies of devastation and domination. This collection stands as one of the foundational texts of twentieth-century radical political thought, cementing Chomsky's dual identity as both a revolutionary linguist and a fearless public intellectual. His prose is dense yet urgent, marshalling historical evidence and moral philosophy in equal measure to construct an argument that remains startlingly relevant decades after its writing. Readers who believe that knowledge and power should be kept at arm's length will find in these pages both a rigorous indictment and a bracing challenge: whose interests does the intellectual ultimately serve?
Author: Noam Chomsky
Format: Paperback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the height of the Vietnam War, one of the twentieth century's most incisive intellectual voices launched a devastating critique of American foreign policy and the academic establishment that enabled it. American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky's landmark collection of political essays, first published in 1969, that dissects the moral and ideological failures driving U.S. imperial ambition — from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the corridors of Washington. Chomsky argues with razor precision that a class of technocratic intellectuals — the new mandarins — had surrendered their critical independence to serve the machinery of state power, providing scholarly legitimacy to policies of devastation and domination. This collection stands as one of the foundational texts of twentieth-century radical political thought, cementing Chomsky's dual identity as both a revolutionary linguist and a fearless public intellectual. His prose is dense yet urgent, marshalling historical evidence and moral philosophy in equal measure to construct an argument that remains startlingly relevant decades after its writing. Readers who believe that knowledge and power should be kept at arm's length will find in these pages both a rigorous indictment and a bracing challenge: whose interests does the intellectual ultimately serve?