Understanding Power

Outline

Understanding Power (2002) brings together edited transcripts of discussions and talks that Noam Chomsky gave between 1989 and 1999. Chomsky examines how governments, corporations, and the media shape public opinion, and discusses foreign policy, economic power, and the role of ordinary citizens in creating change. Editors Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel added extensive notes and sources to support the arguments.

• The book collects edited transcripts of discussions and talks Noam Chomsky gave between 1989 and 1999.
• Chomsky examines how governments, corporations, and the media shape public opinion.
• He also discusses foreign policy and economic power, and how they affect ordinary people.
• Ordinary citizens have a role in creating change, and the book encourages readers to recognise it.
• Editors Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel added extensive notes and sources so readers can check the arguments.

Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell & John Schoeffel worked together on this book, with Chomsky as its author and Mitchell and Schoeffel as its editors. Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and political critic who taught for decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His other books include Manufacturing Consent, written with Edward S. Herman.