Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published May 17, 2014 by Penguin Books, Limited.
This book shows thru history of revolution and approachable messaging that a better is possible :)
A big, red "A" dragged me to the book—Chomsky guided me to the counter.
His scientifical, social, linguistic approach led him to a profound analysis of the past and present society. His ideas are deeply true and sometimes hard to accept, because of how much we are accustomed to reality as it is...
The book is a collection of texts and interviews by Chomsky and gives a general idea of his thought: I found it hard to grasp the chapter on the Spanish revolution before the Franco regime, yet it was intriguing and I hope to reread it in the future. The last chapter was instead marvelous in my opinion, as I truly believe in studying language and its science as a manner of understanding human behaviour.
"It seems to me fair to regard the contemporary study of language as in some ways a return to the Humboldtian concept of …
A big, red "A" dragged me to the book—Chomsky guided me to the counter.
His scientifical, social, linguistic approach led him to a profound analysis of the past and present society. His ideas are deeply true and sometimes hard to accept, because of how much we are accustomed to reality as it is...
The book is a collection of texts and interviews by Chomsky and gives a general idea of his thought: I found it hard to grasp the chapter on the Spanish revolution before the Franco regime, yet it was intriguing and I hope to reread it in the future. The last chapter was instead marvelous in my opinion, as I truly believe in studying language and its science as a manner of understanding human behaviour.
"It seems to me fair to regard the contemporary study of language as in some ways a return to the Humboldtian concept of the form of language: a system of generative processes rooted in innate properties of mind but permitting, in Humboldt's phrase, an infinite use of finite means. Language cannot be described as a system of organization of behavior. Rather, to understand how language is used, we must discover the abstract Humboldtian form of language—its generative grammar, in modern terms."
The emphasis is of course on anarchism and its political and capitalistic enemies, and really shakes the foundation of the society as we know it. A not-so-easy but inspiring book.
