{"product_id":"on-language-chomskys-classic-works-language-and-responsibility-and-reflections-on-language-in-one-volume-9781565844759","title":"On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume--an ideal introduction to his work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Language\u003c\/i\u003e features some of Noam Chomsky's most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, \u003ci\u003eLanguage and Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, \u003ci\u003eReflections on Language\u003c\/i\u003e, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eLanguage and Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-organized, clearly written and comprehensive introduction to Chomsky's thought.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eLanguage and Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e brings together in one readable volume Chomsky's positions on issues ranging from politics and philosophy of science to recent advances in linguistic theory. . . . The clarity of presentation at times approaches that of Bertrand Russell in his political and more popular philosophical essays.\" --\u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eReflections on Language\u003c\/i\u003e is profoundly satisfying and impressive. It is the clearest and most developed account of the case of universal grammar and of the relations between his theory of language and the innate faculties of mind responsible for language acquisition and use.\" --Patrick Flanagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoam Chomsky is the Institute Professor and a professor of linguistics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eOn Language: Chomsky's Classic Works \u003c\/i\u003eLanguage and Responsibility\u003ci\u003e and \u003c\/i\u003eReflections on Language; \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel; \u003ci\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFor Reasons of State\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eProblems of Knowledge and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eObjectivity and Liberal Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTowards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Chomsky\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Anthony Arnove; and \u003ci\u003eOn Anarchism\u003c\/i\u003e, and a co-author (with Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of \u003ci\u003eThe Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Michel Foucault) of \u003ci\u003eThe Chomsky-Foucault Debate\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by The New Press. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650035650834,"sku":"9781565844759","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1cfbe34b-f33f-4dc9-b375-6910127976e3.jpg?v=1733280933","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-language-chomskys-classic-works-language-and-responsibility-and-reflections-on-language-in-one-volume-9781565844759","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}