Decoding Chomsky Science and Revolutionary Politics 1st Edition by Chris Knight ISBN 9780300221466 0300221466

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ISBN 10:  0300221466

ISBN 13:   9780300221466

Author:  Chris Knight

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds

Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and mind. Knight explores the social and institutional context of Chomsky’s thinking, showing how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science on the one hand and politics on the other, deepening a split between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment. Provocative, fearless, and engaging, this remarkable study explains the enigma of one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.

Table of contents: 

1. The Revolutionary
2. The Language Machine
3. A Man of His Time
4. The Most Hideous Institution on This Earth
5. The Cognitive Revolution
6. The Tower of Babel
7. The Pentagon’s ‘New Tower’
8. Machine Translation: The Great Folly
9. A Universal Alphabet of Sounds
10. Russian Formalist Roots
11. Incantation by Laughter
12. Tatlin’s Tower
13. An Instinct for Freedom
14. The Linguistics Wars
15. Between Colliding Tectonic Plates
16. The Escapologist
17. The Soul Mutation
18. Carburettor and Other Innate Concepts
19. A Scientific Revolution?
20. Mindless Activism, Tongue-Tied Science
21. Chomsky’s Tower
22. Before Language
23. The Human Revolution

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