For Reasons of State

By: Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 15 December 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Chomsky's major works now reissued by The New Press. An essential record of Chomsky's political and social thought as it was sharpened during 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 use of the university, and a now-classic introduction to anarchism. These essays 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. Following the recent release of American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State is a major addition to the intellectual history of the Vietnam era.

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"Those who have waited eight years for Congress to do something about the bombing of Indochina must have a nagging suspicion that things may go on much as before. They will find little comfort in Chomsky's book." - The New York Review of Books "Here Chomsky displays those qualities which exemplify the finest traditions of intellectual responsibility and which have rightly earned for him the gratitude of those who have long regarded the Vietnam War as an abomination." - The New York Times Book Review

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Foreword
Introduction
The Backroom Boys	p. 3
The Wider War	p. 172
The Rule of Force in International Affairs	p. 212
Indochina: The Next Phase	p. 259
On the Limits of Civil Disobedience	p. 285
The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis	p. 298
Psychology and Ideology	p. 318
Notes on Anarchism	p. 370
Language and Freedom	p. 387
Bibliography	p. 409
Index	p. 429
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For Reasons of State

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You Can Find This Book In

Other Books By Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Consent

The Political Economy of the Mass Media

On Western Terrorism

From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare

Who Rules the World?

On Anarchism

On Palestine

Barriers

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Requiem For The American Dream

The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

Optimism Over Despair

Global Discontents

Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal

The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

Chomsky for Activists

Universalizing Resistance

Internationalism or Extinction

Universalizing Resistance

Chronicles of Dissent

The Precipice

Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change

Consequences of Capitalism

Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

Gaza in Crisis

Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

World Orders Old and New

Failed States

The abuse of power and the assault on democracy

On Nature and Language