文档介绍：The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky
Alison Edgley
London and New York
First published 2000
by Routledge
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© 2000 Alison Edgley
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Edgley, Alison, 1963-
The social and political thought of Noam Chomsky/
Alison Edgley.
p. cm.-(Routledge studies in social and political thought)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-20586-7 (hb)
1. Chomsky, Noam-Political and social views. I. Title.
II. Series.
E34 2000
410 ′.92-dc21 99-055601
ISBN 0-415-20586-7
For my father, Roy Edgley
Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Chomsky-critic or theorist? 1
1 Political theory 11
2 The 'good society' 42
3 State capitalism 79
4 State theory 103
5 Nationalism 125
6 Politics and the media 150
Conclusion: Chomsky-militant optimist 180
Bibliography 189
Index 197
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Ian Forbes not only for his love, friendship and practical support but
also for his relentless and rigorous intellectual criticism. Thanks too to Amy for sleeping
so peacefully thereby allowing me plete the final stages. I wo