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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
by Chomsky, Noam
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0896083667
- ISBN 13
- 9780896083660
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VII 422 pages, indexed, annotated. The book has been covered in contact, there is an ownership signature on the front end paper, else clean, unmarked and solid. "In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing more democratic institutions) in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful participation in social and political life." (publisher)
Synopsis
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by US academic Noam Chomsky concerning political power using propaganda to distort and distract from major issues to maintain confusion and complicity, preventing real democracy from becoming effective. Like many of the titles by Chomsky, such as Pirates and Emperors the themes come from such titles as St.
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021370
- Title
- Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
- Author
- Chomsky, Noam
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0896083667
- ISBN 13
- 9780896083660
- Publisher
- South End Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Censorship Mass Media
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Benalla, Victoria
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.