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In Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship Noam Chomsky argues that, during the [[Vietnam War]], the liberal [[intelligentsia]] provided self-serving arguments; that using ideology, they legitimized U.S. commitment to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia. As an additional example, Noam Chomsky looks at the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He investigates how the revolutionary war from below was not objectively described by liberal intellectuals, and argues that this failure in scholarship is a result of their elite bias<ref>{{cite web|title = Synopses & Reviews:Publisher Comments|url = http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781565848580-2|publisher=powells.com| accessdate= 2009-12-03}}</ref>. |
In Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship Noam Chomsky argues that, during the [[Vietnam War]], the liberal [[intelligentsia]] provided self-serving arguments; that using ideology, they legitimized U.S. commitment to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia. As an additional example, Noam Chomsky looks at the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He investigates how the revolutionary war from below was not objectively described by liberal intellectuals, and argues that this failure in scholarship is a result of their elite bias<ref>{{cite web|title = Synopses & Reviews:Publisher Comments|url = http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781565848580-2|publisher=powells.com| accessdate= 2009-12-03}}</ref>. |
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The essay consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the Vietnam war. Part II focuses on the Spanish Civil War. Part III is a conclusion of sorts. |
The essay consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the Vietnam war and increasing role of intellectuals or specialists in government and involved in public and foreign policy. Part II focuses on the Spanish Civil War and contrast the liberal-communist version of the war with that of other sources including [[anarchists]] and first-hand accounts. Part III is a conclusion of sorts. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 02:42, 3 December 2009
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
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| Publisher | The New Press |
Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 131 |
| ISBN | ISBN 9781565848580 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is the title of a essay by the US academic Noam Chomsky[1]. It was first published as part of American Power and the New Mandarins[2]. Parts of the essay were delivered as a lecture at New York University in March 1968, as part of Albert Schweitzer Lecture Series[3]. The first third of the essay, The Menace of Liberal Scholarship by Noam Chomsky in The New York Review of Books, January 2, 1969, was taken "almost verbatim" from this essay[4].
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In Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship Noam Chomsky argues that, during the Vietnam War, the liberal intelligentsia provided self-serving arguments; that using ideology, they legitimized U.S. commitment to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia. As an additional example, Noam Chomsky looks at the Spanish Civil War. He investigates how the revolutionary war from below was not objectively described by liberal intellectuals, and argues that this failure in scholarship is a result of their elite bias[5].
The essay consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the Vietnam war and increasing role of intellectuals or specialists in government and involved in public and foreign policy. Part II focuses on the Spanish Civil War and contrast the liberal-communist version of the war with that of other sources including anarchists and first-hand accounts. Part III is a conclusion of sorts.
See also
References
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (2003). Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship. The New Press.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1969). American Power and the New Mandarins. Pantheon Books.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (2002). American Power and the New Mandarins. The New Press. p. 23. ISBN 156584775X.
- ^ "An Exchange on Liberal Scholarship: Noam Chomsky debates with Richard M. Pfeffer, Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.A. Horvat, and Jon M. Van Dyke; The New York Review of Books, February 13, 1969". The New York Review of Books; chomsky.info. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
- ^ "Synopses & Reviews:Publisher Comments". powells.com. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
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