Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent - Hardcover

Barsky, Robert F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550222821 ISBN 13: 9781550222821

Publisher: ECW Press, 1997

Synopsis

This biography tells the story of how a great intellect, Noam Chomsky's, was shaped. It describes the political and intellectual contexts that helped form the unyielding principles by which Chomsky lives, and the arenas of scholarship, political action, and ideology to which he still contributes. Along the way, the book provides an engaging political history of the last several decades, and many insights into how history too often gets rewritten. Chomsky's views on the uses and misuses of the university are highlighted, as are his doubts about the legitimacy of post-modernist inquiry, and his overall assessment of useful political engagement. In a sense, this book strives to be the autobiography that Chomsky will probably never write by letting Chomsky speak for himself on the matters of greatest concern to him, through well-placed excerpts from his copious body of published writings and unpublished corespondence.

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Review:

"... a remarkably comprehensive biography... Barsky makes Chomsky the person more visible than ever before." Michael G. Wessells , Contemporary Psychology "[A] detailed and perceptive survey of Chomsky's life and work." Raphael Salkie , Times Higher Education Supplement "For over thirty years Noam Chomsky has been a pathbreaking linguist and a controversial critic of American policies and politics. Indeed, the world seems to divide between those who revere and those who revile Chomsky. Both groups would find valuable Robert F. Barsky's appreciative biography; he recounts (the known and the little known) facts of Chomsky's life, evaluates his linguistic contribution and surveys the main quarrels. This is an essential book not only for Chomsky affecionados and adversaries, but for all students of American political and intellectual life." Russell Jacoby, UCLA

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Full Text online version of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
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About this edition

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1550222821
• ISBN 13: 9781550222821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237