{"product_id":"problems-of-knowledge-and-freedom-the-russell-lectures-9781565848092","title":"Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first work to connect Noam Chomsky's linguistic and political thought, offering important insight into the philosophical foundations of his worldview \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A subtle and scrupulous look at some of the most interesting work done in our time on language and mind.\" --George Steiner, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eOriginally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, \u003cem\u003eProblems of Knowledge and Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of this wide-ranging work, Chomsky takes up Russell's lifelong search for the empirical principles of human understanding, in a philosophical overview referencing Hume, Wittgenstein, von Humboldt, and others. In the following half, aptly titled \"On Changing the World,\" Chomsky applies these concepts to the issues that would remain the focus of his increasingly political work of the period--his criticisms of the war in Southeast Asia and the Cold War ideology that supported it, of the centralization of U.S. decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, and of the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, as well as his analyses of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nixon's foreign policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\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":50356693893394,"sku":"9781565848092","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_09abf144-fe5d-4ac2-837c-8cb33b32bafa.jpg?v=1728312554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/problems-of-knowledge-and-freedom-the-russell-lectures-9781565848092","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}