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书名: Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics
作者: Chris Knight (Author)
出版社: Yale University Press; First Edition edition (September 27, 2016)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 9780300221466
ISBN-13: 978-0300221466

Book Description
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 prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and mind. Knight explores the social and institutional context of Chomsky’s thinking, showing how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science on the one hand and politics on the other, deepening a split between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment. Provocative, fearless, and engaging, this remarkable study explains the enigma of one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.

Review
"Knight has dug deeper and made more inter connections than anyone has done before. The result is truly revelatory." - Michael Tomasello, author of A Natural History of Human Thinking.

"Knight's exploration of Chomsky's politics, linguistics, and intellectual history is unparalleled. No other study has provided such a full understanding of Chomsky's background, intellectual foibles, objectives, inconsistencies, and genius. " - Daniel Everett, author of How Language Began.

"Chris Knight is to be commended for this engaging and thought-provoking intellectual history of a thesis that remains hotly contested and the reverberations of which, as he rightly observes, resonate far beyond academia." - Houman Barekat, Times Literary Supplement.

"Decoding Chomsky . . . may be the most in-depth meditation on 'the Chomsky problem' ever published . . . A compelling read." - Tom Bartlett, Chronicle of Higher Education.

"Simply brilliant. The first theoretically sophisticated analysis of a chasm between mind and body, theory and practice which has become profoundly symptomatic of postmodern culture as a whole." - David Hawkes, author of Ideology.

"Fascinating on so many levels, Knights critique of an academic demigod is a compelling case study of the institutional, personal, interpersonal, historical and accidental forces shaping one of the major intellectual movements of our time." - Nick Enfield, author of How We Talk.

"This book provides a fascinating account of the disconnect and symmetry between Chomsky's value-free science and his science-free politics." - Les Levidow, editor of Science as Culture.

"History comes alive via compelling narrative . . . Knight is indeed an impressive historian when it comes to recounting the gripping personal histories behind Chomsky's groundbreaking contributions to science and philosophy." - Sean O'Neill, American Ethnologist.

"Decoding Chomsky is a groundbreaking analysis of the wide chasm that now exists between modern language science and Chomsky's view of language. A must-read for anyone trying to understand the history and trajectory of Chomsky's ideas." - Gary Lupyan, University of Wisconsin.

"Chris Knight tells a compelling story with startling clarity and forceful elegance, about the bizarre results of studying language, that most human of faculties, by removing it as far as possible from lived human experience. He provides a persuasive explanation for Chomsky's strategy that reveals striking perspectives on the relationship between science, politics and values." - Marek Kohn, author of As We Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved Mind.

"Decoding Chomsky reads like a detective novel. So many of the arguments I found right on the mark, but I would recommend it just for the pleasure of reading Knight's great English prose, particularly his talent for understatement. A truly fantastic work, simply brilliant. I could not put it down." - Luc Steels, Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona.

"I can say that this is the best critique of Chomsky from the left that I have ever read. I disagree with Knight quite profoundly on a number of key issues, but in every chapter I learned something new and, in fact, found myself agreeing with him more and more as the book progressed." - Frederick Newmeyer, author of The Politics of Linguistics.

"Few disagree that language has been a game-changer for the human species. But just how we came by language remains hotly contested. In Decoding Chomsky, Chris Knight strides into this minefield to bravely replace miraculous leaps and teleology with a proposal that actually makes evolutionary sense." - Sarah Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others.

"This is one of the most exciting scholarly books I have read in years. Decoding Chomsky will be required reading for anyone at all interested in the history of intellectual and political thought since the 1950s." - David Golumbia, author of The Cultural Logic of Computation.

"Intellectually hip and iconoclastic, Decoding Chomsky surveys1950s McCarthyite politics and 1960s student unrest in order to get a handle on the extraordinary influence of Noam's ideas." - Bob Feldman, Students for a Democratic Society, Columbia University 1968.

"Decoding Chomsky is an astonishingly well-written and researched volume that will probably be the most important work in the history of ideas, post World War II, that you'll read for quite some time. It's so lucid and well-researched and intellectually and emotionally gripping I couldn't find a fault with it, though I tried." - Michael Johnson, Overweening Generalist.

Chris Knight's book on the science and politics of the world's most influential intellectual - Noam Chomsky - is an insightful book and, one might say, a-pleasure-to-read kind of book." - Thomas Klikauer, The European Legacy.

"Decoding Chomsky ... focuses on all the major phases of Chomsky's linguistic theories,their institutional preconditions and their ideological and political ramifications. And it is absolutely devastating." - Peter Seyferth, Anarchist Studies.

About the Author
Chris Knight is currently senior research fellow in the department of anthropology at University College, London. He lives in London.
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