Chomsky and Deconstruction [electronic resource] : The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge /
Wise, C.author.
This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky's criticism against deconstructive theories of language. The author reveals the connections between Chomsky's linguistic theories and politics by demonstrating their shared philosophical basis.
Description based upon print version of record.
Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge; One Cerebral Hermeneutics; Two The Ungiven-Given; Three Locke's ""Misreading"" of Descartes and Other Fairy Tales; Four Identity Politics and the Pedagogy of Competence; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky's criticism against deconstructive theories of language. The author reveals the connections between Chomsky's linguistic theories and politics by demonstrating their shared philosophical basis.
Chomsky, Noam.
Literature-Philosophy.
Poststructuralism.
America-Literatures.
Linguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literary Theory.
Poststructuralism.
North American Literature.
Linguistics, general.
Applied Linguistics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.