The essential Chomsky / Noam Chomsky ; edited by Anthony Arnove.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-484) and index.

"Select bibliography of works by Noam Chomsky": pages [485]-490.

A review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior -- Preface to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax -- Methodological preliminaries -- The responsibility of intellectuals -- On resistance -- Language and freedom -- Notes on anarchism -- The rule of force in international affairs -- Watergate: a skeptical view -- The remaking of history -- Foreign policy and the intelligentsia -- The United States and East Timor -- The origins of the "special relationship" -- Planning for global hegemony -- The view beyond: prospects for the study of mind -- Containing the enemy -- Introduction to The Minimalist Program -- New horizons in the study of language and mind -- Intentional ignorance and its uses -- A world without war -- Reflections on 9-11 -- Language and the brain -- United States-Israel-Palestine -- Imperial grand strategy -- Afterword to Failed States.

"One of the World's most prominent public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky has, in more than fifty years of writing on politics, philosophy, and language, revolutionized modern linguistics and established himself as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his most important writings since 1959 - from his groundbreaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his bestselling, works Hegemony or Survival and Failed States - concerning subjects ranging from critiques of corporate media and U.S. interventionism to intellectual freedom and the political economy of human rights. With a foreword by Anthony Arnove, The Essential Chomsky is an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of Chomsky's thought."--BOOK JACKET.