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" Chomsky For Beginners. "
David Cogswell
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736895
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David Cogswell
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Chomsky For Beginners.\ David Cogswell
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Cork: Red Wheel Weiser, 2007
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For Beginners; EBL-Schweitzer
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((162 Seiten)).
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1939994012
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: 9781939994011
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations of sources of quotes; First Page; Chapter 1 - Introduction; "Noam WHO?"; Why haven't you heard of "the most important intellectual alive"?; Chomsky's two careers; Chapter 2 - The File on Chomsky: A Biographical Sketch; Growing up during the Depression; The Kiosk; College Dropout; On a kibbutz in Israel; Political activism; Chapter 3 - The Shoulders of Giants-Antecedents to the Thinking of Chomsky; Plato (428-354 B.C.); Rene Descartes (1596-1650); Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835).Karl Marx (1818-1883)George Orwell (1903-1950); The anarchist tradition; Zellig Harris; A note to the Reader; Chapter 4 - LINGUISTICS; What is linguistics?; Evolution of linguistics; linguistics as a science; Universal Generative Grammar; Evidence that Universal Grammar Is Innate; Is Grammar Learnable?; The Infinite Variety of Language; What is the nature of the original state? Or what is human nature?; Chomsky on Skinner and Behaviorism; Chapter 5 - Noam Chomsky and the MEDIA: Can You Believe What You See and Hear?; Necessary Illusions: The Science of Propaganda.What is the function of the Media in a Democratic Society?Engineering consent; Walter Lippman; Reinhold Neibuhr; To recap Chomsky's view ... ; The Targets of Propaganda; The Threat of Democracy; The Propaganda Model; Filter #1: MONEY-"The Media of Influence"; Filter #2: ADVERTISING-How does that distort the news?; Filter #3: "EXPERTS"--Who do they work for ... and why do the same ones keep popping up?; Filter #4: "FLAK"-Who writes all those Letters-to-the-Editor?; Filter #5: ANTI-COMMUNISM-creating a Bogeyman; CONCISION - THE STATE OR QUALITY OF BEING CONCISE; KEEPING IN LINE.DON'T TAKE CHOMSKY'S WORD FOR IT-CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELFWhat are they hiding?; Chapter 6 - Chomsky on Politics; POLITICS MEDIA; Why doesn't the news compute?; The myth of the Classless Society; The myth of the Free Market system; Welfare for the Rich-The Hoax of The Free Market System; Uncle Newt's Double-Standard; "National Defense is a sick joke."; Colonialism-Then and Now; FOREIGN POLICY: Friendly Dictators & Client States; The REAL New World Order-How It Started; The REAL Objective Of The New World Order; "Corporate interests"/"American interests.History: One Or Two Things They Don't Tell YouComing home to roost; Chapter 7- Chomsky on Fighting Back: What Can One Person Do?; Taking Responsibility-What can one person do?; Intellectual Self Defense; Knowledge and information; INTERVIEW with Noam Chomsky; Index; Last Page; Insert Page.Noam Chomsky has written some 30 books, he is one of the most-quoted authors on Earth, The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive"--Yet most people have no idea who he is or what he's about. Chomsky For Beginners tells you what he's about: Chomsky is known for his work in two distinct areas - Linguistics and ... "Gadflying." ("Gadfly," the word applied to Socrates, comes closest to the constant social irritant that Chomsky has become.) It is Chomsky's work as Political Gadfly and Media Critic that has given passion and hope to the general public - and alienate.
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P85.C47D385 2007
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David Cogswell
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Paul Gordon
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