Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship

Noam Chomsky

Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is Chomsky’s powerful indictment of a liberal intelligentsia that provided self-serving arguments for war in Vietnam—legitimizing US commitment to autocratic rule and intervention in Asia as the tasks of “pacification theory.” Including Chomsky’s analysis of the Spanish Civil War as a revolutionary war from below, this book lays bare the reluctance of scholarly elites to engage in mass movements and social change, revealing not objectivity, but its opposite—the use of ideology to mask self-interest.

status	Copy #1 (6190): in
genre	Philosophy » General Philosophy
publisher	Black & Red
publish date	1997
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