Decoding Chomsky science and revolutionary politics / Chris Knight.

Author/creator Knight, Chris, 1942-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Descriptionxiv, 285 pages ; 25 cm
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Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 246-276) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016945085
ISBN9780300221466
ISBN0300221460
Standard identifier# 9780300221466

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