El nuevo humanismo militar: las lecciones de Kosovo

Noam Chomsky

jan 2002. · Siglo XXI

O ovoj e-knjizi

En su análisis del bombardeo de la OTAN, Chomsky desafía al Nuevo Humanismo, ¿se guía por intereses de poder o por una preocupación humanitaria? ¿El recurso de la fuerza se ejerce en nombre de principios y valores o nos enfrentamos a algo mucho más vulgar y conocido? Con un profundo conocimiento de la historia, pone de manifiesto las retóricas afirmaciones de que Estados Unidos y sus aliados luchan por un mundo donde los responsables de la limpieza étnica no tengan donde ocultarse. Revela un mundo donde las víctimas de violaciones a sus derechos humanos son dignas o indignas. Buca recuperar lo que Orwell llamó una forma siniestra y primordialmente voluntaria de censura literaria, derivada de una buena educación, que inculca el "acuerdo general tácito de que no sería bien visto mencionar ese hecho en particular"

O autoru

Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community. Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War. Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).