Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy - Softcover

Chomsky, Noam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241317584 ISBN 13: 9780241317587

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectualWhat kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow?From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course of ten conversations with long-time collaborator David Barsamian, spanning 2013-2016, Chomsky argues in favour of radical changes to a system that cannot possibly cope with what awaits tomorrow.Interwoven with personal reflections spanning from childhood to his eighth decade of life, Global Discontents also marks out Chomsky's own intellectual journey, mapping his progress to revolutionary ideas and global prominence.

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If you've never read any Chomsky before, and you want to know what all the fuss is about, this book is a good place to start. Yet more evidence of why Chomsky deserves his position as one of the world's foremost intellectuals (The Times Literary Supplement)

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'For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky' New Statesman

The world's leading public intellectual presents his essential guide to geopolitics in 2017 - and how we should resist.

What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow?

From the devastation in Syria to pandemic state surveillance to the threat of nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes an urgent overview of the global situation. He asks us to consider the impact of the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election and to weigh growing anger over economic inequality against escalating climate change.

Global Discontents is an examination of shifting international forces but also of the personal shifts and evolutions of its author. Weaving together geopolitical arguments with personal reflections spanning from childhood to his eighth decade of life, Chomsky marks out his own intellectual journey to revolutionary ideas and global prominence.

Over the course of ten electrifying conversations with long-time collaborator David Barsamian, Chomsky takes stock of the present, and argues in favour of radical changes to a system that cannot possibly cope with what awaits in the future.

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241317584
• ISBN 13: 9780241317587
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1