Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

Publisher:  Black Rose Books, Montreal, Canada
Year Published:  1997
Pages:  276pp   ISBN:  1-55164-049-X
Library of Congress Number:  P85.C47C47 1997   Dewey:  327.1`01
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7566

Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.

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Table of Contents

Foreward by Agio Pereira
Preface

1 Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes
2 Language and Nature
3 Writers and Intellectual responsibility
4 Goals and Visions
5 Democracy and Markets in the New World Order
6 The Middle East Settlement: Its Sources and Contours
7 The Great Powers and Human Rights: The Case of East Timor
8 East Timor and World Order
9 "Consent without Consent": Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy

Endnotes
Index

Subject Headings

• Australia
• Cold War
• Corporate Agenda
• Corporate Codes of Practice
• Corporate Crime
• Crimes Against Humanity
• East Timor
• Foreign Policy
• Human Nature
• Human Rights Abuses
• Human Rights Violations
• Ideological Cliches
• Ideology
• Indonesia
• Intellectuals
• International Affairs/Relations
• International Law
• Language
• Language Development
• Language Studies
• Massacres
• Middle East Peace Process
• Middle East Politics/History
• Palestinians
• Power
• Science
• United Nations
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• U.S. Imperialism
• Vietnam War