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Necessary illusions

Noam Chomsky

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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States 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. The title of this book borrows a phrase from the …

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States 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. The title of this book borrows a phrase from the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. Nearly the entire first half of the book is based on Chomsky's five 1988 Massey Lectures on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio from November 1988 and extends his and Edward S. Herman's propaganda model to a variety of new situations. The remaining appendices address criticisms of the work and provide additional detail. As a genre of political thought, parallels exist between Niebuhr's "necessary illusions" and the "noble lies" of Plato and Leo Strauss, "public relations" of Edward Bernays and "myth making" of Niccolò Machiavelli. Likewise, Chomsky's analyses in Necessary Illusions represent a refocus on the use of these patterns of power, which he implies to underscore the failure of populations – particularly in a representative democracy – to learn from history in this regard.

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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions (Pluto Classic) (Paperback, 1989, Pluto Press)

Necessary Illusions (Pluto Classic)

Paperback, 432 pages

Published July 28, 1989 by Pluto Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-7453-0380-2
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary illusions (2003, House of Anansi Press)

Necessary illusions

422 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2003 by House of Anansi Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-88784-574-1
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OCLC Number:: 51495096

No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions (2002, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio))

Necessary Illusions

English language

Published April 6, 2002 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio).

ISBN:: 978-0-660-18332-9
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OCLC Number:: 49654376

No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary illusions (1989, CBC Enterprises)

Necessary illusions

422 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1989 by CBC Enterprises.

ISBN:: 978-0-88794-341-6
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions (1993, Pluto P.)

Necessary Illusions

423 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1993 by Pluto P..

ISBN:: 978-0-7453-0820-3
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary illusions (1991, Anansi)

Necessary illusions

422 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1991 by Anansi.

ISBN:: 978-0-88784-519-2
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary illusions (1989, South End Press)

Necessary illusions

422 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1989 by South End Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-89608-366-0
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No cover — Empty Author: Necessary Illusions (2012, House of Anansi Press)

Necessary Illusions

English language

Published April 17, 2012 by House of Anansi Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-88784-868-1
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions (1999)

Necessary Illusions

English language

Published July 1, 1999

ISBN:: 978-0-89608-366-0
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions (2005, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio))

Necessary Illusions

English language

Published June 30, 2005 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio).

ISBN:: 978-0-660-19387-8
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Media Control (German language, 2003, Europa Verlag)

Media Control

253 pages

German language

Published April 11, 2003 by Europa Verlag.

ISBN:: 978-3-203-76015-5
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No cover — Noam Chomsky: Media Control (2002)

Media Control

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2002

ISBN:: 978-1-58322-536-3
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