Problems of knowledge and freedom
By: by Noam Chomsky.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: The Russell lectures; Russell lectures (Trinity College (University of Cambridge))
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of; World politics
Description: "In 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, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, 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. These include the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, the centralization of U.S. decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, along with his reflections on the Cuban missile crisis and the mass liberation movements of the era." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell"--P. [4] of cover.