Re: OFF-TOPIC: Non linguistics books by Chomsky

Quoting Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>:

> I just bought a book in the university bookshop today entitled "Hegemony
> or Survival: America's Quest for Global Domination" by Noam Chomsky. At
> first I thought it was unlikely to be by the Chomsky known to everyone
> who's read a linguistics book, but talking about the author the book
> says "He is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
> at MIT, and is widely credited with having revolutionised modern
> linguistics" I wasn't aware Chomsky had written any books about politics
> but the book itself is very interesting, and very convincing... I was
> not exactly in favour of recent american foreign policy anyway, but the
> book gives a very coherent and well thought out argument against it
> which I find myself agreeing with completely. Has anyone else read it?
This is the second thread about some naive conlanger discovering Chomsky's
alternate (and to most people probably better known) career as a political thinker.

Anyway, I've not read the book, but I would like to suggest that any discussion
of Chomsky's politics is kept off-list.

                                                            Andreas

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