Decoding Chomsky science and revolutionary politics
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 promin...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The revolutionary
- The language machine
- A man of his time
- The most hideous institution on this earth
- The cognitive revolution
- The Tower of Babel
- The Pentagon's 'new tower'
- Machine translation : the great folly
- A universal alphabet of sounds
- Russian formalist roots
- Incantation by laughter
- Tatlin's tower
- An instinct for freedom
- The linguistics wars
- Between colliding tectonic plates
- The escapologist
- The soul mutation
- Carburettor and other innate concepts
- A scientific revolution?
- Mindless activism, tongue-tied science
- Chomsky's tower
- Before language
- The human revolution