On Language: Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

496 Pages·1998·18.31 MB·English

by  Noam Chomsky

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FEATURING TWO OF NOAM CHOMKSY’S This volume is one of several classic works
most popular and enduring books in one by Chomsky reissued by The New Press. The
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omnibus volume, On Languagecontains some others are American Power and the New
of the noted linguist and political critic’s most Mandarins,For Reasons of State,Problems of
informal and accessible work to date, making Knowledge and Freedom,Objectivity and Liberal
it an ideal introduction to his thought. Scholarship,and Towards a New Cold War.
In Part I,Language and Responsibility (1979), A
Chomskypresents a fascinating self-portrait of NOAM CHOMKSY is Institute Professor
his political, moral, and linguistic thinking emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of
through a series of interviews with French lin- Technology, a world-renowned linguist and
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guist Mitsou Ronat. In Part II, Reflections on political activist, and the author of numerous
Language(1975), he explores the more general books, including 9-11,Hegemony or Survival,
implications of the study of language and offers Failed States,and the collection Understanding
incisive analyses of the controversies among Power(The New Press). E
psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over
fundamental questions of language.
www.thenewpress.com CHOMSKY’S CLASSIC WORKS
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