{"product_id":"the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-9781620973431","title":"The Responsibility of Intellectuals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals' relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility--one that was to be the guiding principle of his intellectual life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Chomsky is a global phenomenon. . . . He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of \u003cem\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/em\u003e and then of \u003cem\u003ePolitics\u003c\/em\u003e. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that \"intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments\" and to analyze their \"often hidden intentions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, Chomsky's essay eviscerated the \"hypocritical moralism of the past\" (such as when Woodrow Wilson set out to teach Latin Americans \"the art of good government\") and exposed the destructive policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChomsky then turns to the \"war on terror\" and \"enhanced interrogation\" of the Bush years in \"The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux,\" an essay written on the tenth anniversary of 9\/11. As relevant now as it was in 1967, \u003cem\u003eThe Responsibility of Intellectuals\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us that \"privilege yields opportunity and opportunity confers responsibilities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/strong\u003e is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, he is also a political dissident who has written more than one hundred books. His New Press books include \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Power\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Chomsky\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717870588178,"sku":"9781620973431","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_214602ad-4efc-4e98-b3ab-2cc813277b36.jpg?v=1734628794","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-9781620973431","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}