Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Keywords: american, empire, project, dominance, global, survival, america, quest, hegemony
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-04
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0805074007
ISBN-13: 9780805074000

From the world’s foremost intellectual activist, an irrefuable analysis of America’s pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that could follow.From the world’s foremost intellectual activist, an irrefuable analysis of America’s pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that could follow.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Keywords: american, empire, project, democracy, assault, states, abuse, power, failed
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0805079122
ISBN-13: 9780805079128

The world’s foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at homeThe United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against “failed states” around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a “failed state,” and thus a danger to its own people and the world. “Failed states” Chomsky writes, are those “that do not protect their citizens from vi

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: South End Pre
Keywords: terrorism, real, world, international, new, emperors, old, pirates
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0896086852
ISBN-13: 9780896086852

This updated edition of Noam Chomsky’s classic dis-section of terrorism explores the role of the U.S. in the Middle East, and reveals how the media manipulates -public opinion about what constitutes "terrorism."This edition includes new chapters covering the second Palestinian intifada that began in October 2000; an analysis of the impact of September 11 on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East; a deconstruction of depictions and perceptions of terrorism since that date; as well as the original sections on Iran and the U.S. bombing of Libya.Chomsky starts by tracing the changing meaning

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: mind, language
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 052167493X
ISBN-13: 9780521674935

This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky’s influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky’s early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an int

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: linguistics, studies, current, program, minimalist
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1995-09-28
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0262531283
ISBN-13: 9780262531283

The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and progressively developed. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretica

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: structures, syntactic
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 3110172798
ISBN-13: 9783110172799

Noam Chomsky’s first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosophy about the nature of man and language, but rather a rigorus explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system,

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: syntax, theory, aspects
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1969-03-15
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0262530074
ISBN-13: 9780262530071

Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, and approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is connected to the traditional study of languages, it differs enough in its specific conclusions about the structure and in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar." Various deficiencies have been discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and i