Re: OFF-TOPIC: Non linguistics books by Chomsky

Chris Bates said:
> 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?

Noam Chomsky has been a neo-Marxist political advocate and culture critic
at least since the days of the Vietnam Intifada. He's written numerous
political books and countless essays, and AFAIK continues to have many
speaking engagements on political subjects -- probably more than he does
in linguistics, at this point.

I've seen him more on TV than I have at linguistics conferences.


-- Mark