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Decoding Chomsky : science and revolutionary politics /

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world's most promin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knight, Chris, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The revolutionary
  • The language machine
  • A man of his time
  • The most hideous institution on this earth
  • The cognitive revolution
  • The Tower of Babel
  • The Pentagon's 'new tower'
  • Machine translation : the great folly
  • A universal alphabet of sounds
  • Russian formalist roots
  • Incantation by laughter
  • Tatlin's tower
  • An instinct for freedom
  • The linguistics wars
  • Between colliding tectonic plates
  • The escapologist
  • The soul mutation
  • Carburettor and other innate concepts
  • A scientific revolution?
  • Mindless activism, tongue-tied science
  • Chomsky's tower
  • Before language
  • The human revolution.