Problems of Knowledge and Freedom - Softcover

Chomsky, Noam

 
9780394718156: Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0394718151 ISBN 13: 9780394718156
Publisher: Vintage, 1972

Synopsis

In the first half of this wide-ranging work, Chomsky takes up Russell's lifelong search for the empirical principles of human understanding, in a philosophical overview referencing Hume, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and others. In the following half, aptly-titled "On Changing the World," Chomsky applies these concepts to the issues that would remain the focus of his increasingly political work of the period. These include the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, the centralization of U.S. decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, along with his reflections on the Cuban missile crisis and the mass liberation movements of the era.

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About the Author

Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Publisher
Vintage
Publication date
1972
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0394718151
ISBN 13 
9780394718156
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
120