Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship
Publisher: New Press
Published: September 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781565848580
Subjects: International relations; Political science & theory; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; U.S. Foreign Relations; Political Doctrines; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Vietnam; International Relations - General; Military - Vietnam War
Description: "Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is Chomsky's powerful indictment of a liberal intelligentsia that provided self-serving arguments for war in Vietnam, legitimizing U.S. commitment to autocratic rule, to intervention in Asia and, ultimately, to the "pacification" of millions. Over thirty years after their first printing, these are prophetic words, as today America effects "regime change" in Iraq and an increasingly boisterous militarism around the globe. Included here is Chomsky's classic counter-analysis of the Spanish Civil War as a revolutionary war from below, as he lays bare the hostility of even liberal scholarly elites to engage in mass movements and social change, revealing not objectivity but its opposite - the use of ideology to mask self-interest and obeisance to power. Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is a crucial signpost of Chomsky's searing contribution to our age, and an indispensable lens through which to consider mainstream punditry today."--BOOK JACKET.