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Spanish Review

¿Cuál es la función de los medios de comunicación en una democracia capitalista? Ilusiones necesarias argumenta que, lejos de ejercer una función de vigilancia, la "prensa libre" presta servicio a las necesidades de quienes ostentan el poder. Con este libro, Chomsky arranca la máscara de la propaganda, que representa a los medios de comunicación como defensores de la libertad de expresión y de la democracia. Este libro aplica el modelo de propaganda que Chomsky ha desarrollado con Edward Herman para la cobertura por los medios de comunicación del proceso diplomático en América Central y en Oriente Medio, los asuntos de derechos humanos, el terrorismo y otros temas, revelando la función crítica de los medios de comunicación y de las élites cultas a la hora de limitar la democracia en Estados Unidos. Ilusiones necesarias, obra rigurosamente documentada, es una herramienta invaluable para la comprensión del funcionamiento de la democracia en Estados Unidos.

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Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community.

Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics.

Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War.

Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).

(Bowker Author Biography)