12 must-see Noam Chomsky books

Noam chomsky he has been one of the most important figures in linguistics and semiotics.

His ideas dealt a severe blow to behaviorist theories of language, especially those he defended. B. F. Skinner. But also, Chomsky has been an activist, thinker, and intellectual that he has reflected on how power and inequality have an impact on the way we perceive the world.

Anyone who wants to delve into the thought 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.

Noam Chomsky's books in Spanish

This is a selection of the most important, relevant and accessible Chomsky books.

1. The fear of democracy

In this book, Chomsky points out various mechanisms of thought control that favor a worldview in which the foreign policy of the The United States is perceived as a task of protecting the kingdom of peace, whatever happens and no matter how violent the actions promoted. Through the pages of him he dissects the style of patriotic propaganda that is promoted in the United States.

 and the impact it has on the thinking patterns of the population.

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2. How the world works

One of Noam Chomsky's books in which provides an overview of transnational forces that, according to this thinker, direct the great changes at the planetary level and the great cultural transformations that have occurred recently.

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3. On 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 includes a series of lectures about a double tendency that characterizes us: generating provisional beliefs and theories. about what reality is like starting from very little information and, at the same time, rejecting very clear and obvious data that we come across frequency.

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4. Illusionists

A unique case in which Noam Chomsky preferred to publish an edition of the book in Spanish before its English version. In Illusionists, Chomsky exposes his concerns about what are the main obstacles to its development. 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 lead countries from the shadows, the pressure of lobbies to promote laws and overthrow others without going through the electoral system, and globalization.

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5. The culture of terrorism

In the vein of other Noam Chomsky books, in this one too the strategies 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 nonexistent enemy, the "global communism", which allowed it to operate directly over sovereign territories much more weak. A work reminiscent of the frentism described in the novel 1984 by George Orwell.

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6. Human nature: justice versus power

The book in which the transcription of one of the most interesting debates broadcast on television is offered: 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 Chomsky work explains what is the basis of the different failures and political and economic crises that have occurred in the world in recent decadesIt also points out where the most promising ingredients for change can be found from an activist point of view.

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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 logics from which the market operates, the necessary relationship between the creation of wealth in the neoliberalism and the maintenance of a state that defends its own interests, and the way in which great fortunes are able to make the world change without exposing themselves to the vote of people.

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9. Chomsky essential

In this book Chomsky's texts are collected in which the main brushstrokes of his thought in relation to various topics can be recognized. A good choice for people looking for an introductory book on Noam Chomsky's thinking.

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10. Reasons for anarchy

Here are collected a series of texts by Chomsky in which the thinker explains why major economic and political problems have to be approached from a collectivist and anti-authoritarian point of view. In the pages of Reasons for Anarchy, his left-wing thinking is very 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 views on 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 used by the great oligarchies to influence politics without being questioned, the totalitarian nature of states and why this feedback mechanism explains the growth of the inequality.

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Are you interested in recommending other works by Chomsky?

If you have read other Chomsky books and writings and are interested in making them known 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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