The essential Chomsky

Book 2008

"One of the World's most prominent public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky has, in more than fifty years of writing on politics, philosophy, and language, revolutionized modern linguistics and established himself as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his most important writings since 1959 - from his groundbreaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his best...

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ISBN:

9781595581891
1595581898

Description:

ix, 515 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-484) and index
"Select bibliography of works by Noam Chomsky": pages 485-490

Contents:

A review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior
Preface to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Methodological preliminaries
The responsibility of intellectuals
On resistance
Language and freedom
Notes on anarchism
The rule of force in international affairs
Watergate: a skeptical view
The remaking of history
Foreign policy and the intelligentsia
The United States and East Timor
The origins of the "special relationship"
Planning for global hegemony
The view beyond: prospects for the study of mind
Containing the enemy
Introduction to The Minimalist Program
New horizons in the study of language and mind
Intentional ignorance and its uses
A world without war
Reflections on 9-11
Language and the brain
United States-Israel-Palestine
Imperial grand strategy
Afterword to Failed States

LCCN:

2007043510

Control Number:

3328850

Other Authors:

Arnove, Anthony, 1969-

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