The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
››› Free audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Essential Chomsky ISBN: ISBN13: Autor: Noam Chomsky/Anthony Arnove (Editor) Rating: 3 of 5 stars (2911) counts Original Format: Paperback, 515 pages Format: PDF, DJVU, iBook, MP3. Published: February 12th 2008 / by Penguin Books / (first published 2008) Language: English Genre(s): Politics- 56 s Philosophy- 45 s Nonfiction- 41 s History- 16 s
Description: 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 bestselling works Hegermony or Survival and Failed States-concerning subjects ranging from critiques of corporate media and U.S. interventionism to intellectual freedom and the political economy of human rights. With a foreword by Anthony Arnove, The Essential Chomsky is an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of Chomsky's thought.
About Author:
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of behavior and language
dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind. He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in of their generative power. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known for his media criticism and political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighthmost cited scholar in any time period.
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Books By Author:
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
- Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
- Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
- Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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- Anarchism
- The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
- The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
- Responsibility and Judgment
- The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War
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- The Breakdown of Nations
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