Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures

Chomsky, Noam

ISBN 10 : 1978604629 ISBN 13 : 9781978604629

Editeur : Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, 2018

Synopsis

From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky's early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics.
Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic ysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in tnam.
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 overw referencing Hume, Wittgenstein, von Humboldt, 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 - his criticisms of the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, of the centralization of US decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, and of the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, as well as his yses of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nixon's foreign policies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978604629
• ISBN 13: 9781978604629
• Reliure: CD
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