Noam Chomsky: Critical Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1861892691 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Concise and insightful in true literati style" according to Lawrence Esprit. "High thoughts must have high language." -- AristophanesFew of us have time to read an entire encyclopedia, and if anyone's life could fill one, it's Chomsky's.It must have been a huge undertaking to write an introductory book on such a complex figure. Chomsky is primarily a linguist, but it is his controversial philosophical and political views that make him a household nam. Worthy Effort Douglas Doepke Decent profile of America's chief foreign policy critic, his life and career. It's a slim volume, part of a series called Critical Lives profiling important cultural figures of the past century. Perhaps the most distinguishing feature are the 40 pages on Chomsky the linguist and philosopher. This is the lesser known phase of his intellectual career, but the one that did much. Rather decent introduction to Professor Chomsky Christopher M. Whitman Jr. The book does an overview of Chomsky's life and various episodes in his younger life that impacted his later work. He does the general main points that are examined in talks, interviews, or documentaries with a few more details. The book discusses Chomsky's basic beliefs involved in the field of linguistics and how he came to those conclusions, and how Chomsky has developed
"Sperlich's account of this remarkable life places Chomsky the man beside Chomsky the public figure in an introduction to one of the major thinkers of our time."
A linguist, philosopher, prolific author, and political activist, Chomsky is one of the most influential Western intellectuals of the last half-century. Wolfgang B. Sperlich is equally attentive to Chomsky's political activism: through Sperlich’s account we follow Chomsky from his pacifist-anarchist lectures and writings of the 1950s and 1960s to his seminal 1988 treatise, Manufacturing Consent, and his relentless criticism of the American government over two decades. A compact and rich biographical study, Noam Chomsky is a brilliant introduction to one of the most polarizing intellectuals of our time, a thinker whose words continue to pierce the heart of public discourse.. Yet it is this very capaciousness that biographers and interpreters have struggled with, and as a result, there are very few readable accounts of Chomsky and his project. Sperlich surmounts this challenge with his succinct yet in-depth introduction to the thinker in Noam Chomsky, one of the new titles in the acclaimed Critical Lives series. Beginning with Chomsky’s formative years as a sixteen-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania, Sperlich traces his education in linguistics and politics in its rich historical context. “The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.” This declaration by Noam Chomsky exemplifies the uncompromising radicalism that has long defi