Noam Chomsky has been one of the most important figures in linguistics and semiotics.
His ideas were a serious blow to behaviorist theories about language, especially those defended by BF Skinner. But also, Chomsky has been an activist, a thinker and an intellectual who has reflected on how power and inequality have an impact on the way we perceive the world.
Anyone who wants to delve into the thoughts of this author would do well to start with his writings, so we have made a selection of the best books by Noam Chomsky for restless minds.
Books by Noam Chomsky in Spanish
This is a selection of the most important, relevant and accessible Chomsky books.
1. Fear of democracy
In this book, Chomsky points out various thought control mechanisms that favor a vision of the world in which the foreign policy of the United States is perceived as a task of protecting the reign of peace, no matter what happens and no matter how violent. are the actions promoted. Through its pages it dissects the style of patriotic propaganda that is promoted in the United States and the impact it has on the population’s thinking patterns.
2. How the world works
One of Noam Chomsky’s books in which offers a general overview of transnational forces which, according to this thinker, direct the great changes at a planetary level and the great cultural transformations that have occurred recently.
3. About power and ideology
For Noam Chomsky, The role of ideology has a determining weight in our way of understanding the world, either in a general way or in its smallest details. This book contains a series of conferences about a double tendency that characterizes us: generating provisional beliefs and theories about what reality is like based on very little information and, at the same time, rejecting very clear and evident data with which we We bump into each other frequently.
4. Illusionists
A unique case in which Noam Chomsky preferred to publish an edition of the book in Spanish rather than its version in English In Illusionists, Chomsky exposes his concerns about what are the main obstacles to the development of a scenario in which people can live with equal rights and with guaranteed minimum standards of well-being. Among them is the ease of large business networks to run countries from the shadows, the pressure of lobbies to promote laws and overthrow others without going through the electoral system, and globalization.
5. The culture of terrorism
In line with other books by Noam Chomsky, in this one too The strategies that have been followed by the United States to justify military interventions are reviewed in the name of peace. In this case, it focuses on the Reagan administration and its war against a non-existent enemy, “global communism,” which allowed it to operate directly over much weaker sovereign territories. A work reminiscent of the frentism described in George Orwell’s novel 1984.
6. Human nature: justice versus power
The book that offers the transcription of one of the most interesting debates broadcast on television: a dialogue between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. In this book they present their philosophical positions and, from there, develop their vision of geopolitics, culture and the nature of inequalities.
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7. Hopes and realities
In the pages of this work Chomsky explains what is the basis of the different political and economic failures and crises that have occurred in the world in recent decades and also points out where the most promising ingredients of change can be found from the point of view of activism.
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8. Profit is what counts: neoliberalism and global order
One of Chomsky’s books in which The author focuses more on analyzing neoliberalism as a global phenomenon Here he reflects on the incompatibility between the principles of democracy and the logic from which the market operates, the necessary relationship between the creation of wealth in neoliberalism and the maintenance of a State that defends its own interests, and the way in which Great fortunes are capable of making the world change without exposing themselves to the people’s vote.
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9. Essential Chomsky
This book contains texts by Chomsky in which the main strokes of his thinking in relation to various topics can be recognized. A good option for people looking for an introductory book to the thought of Noam Chomsky
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10. Reasons for anarchy
Here are gathered a series of texts by Chomsky in which the thinker explains why major economic and political problems must be approached from a collectivist and anti-authoritarian point of view In the pages of Reasons for Anarchy his left-wing thinking is clearly reflected.
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Other books by Noam Chomsky
These are some of Chomsky’s books that They are not available in Spanish but can be obtained in English
11. Language and mind
A summary of Chomsky’s vision of language and semiotics. to see the evolution of his thinking in the field that made him famous.
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12. Secrets, lies and democracy
In this book Chomsky talks about the mechanisms that large oligarchies use to influence politics without being questioned, the totalitarian nature of States and why this feedback mechanism explains the growth of inequality.
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Are you interested in recommending other works by Chomsky?
If you have read other books and writings by Chomsky and are interested in sharing and recommending them, you can do so in the comments section. At the same time, if you are very interested in this author and want to delve deeper into his work, You can see the recommendations of others to choose your reading depending on your areas of interest
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