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Decoding Chomsky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2004

CHRIS KNIGHT
CHRIS KNIGHT
Affiliation:
School of Social Sciences, University of East London, Docklands Campus, London E16 2RD, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
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Noam Chomsky is an enigma. To many, he is — and has been for 50 years — the most prominent and courageous academic opponent of his country's militarist ambitions around the globe. Yet among those who admire him on that score, few find it easy to relate to his seemingly obscure theories about language. The academic community acclaims Chomsky as the principal inspiration behind the so-called ‘cognitive revolution’ in psychology and related sciences — an intellectual development reflecting corporate pressures and initially sponsored by the United States military. This article investigates the paradoxical relationship between Chomsky's political activism and his science.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 581 - 603
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2004

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