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This biography tells the story of how a great intellect, Noam Chomsky's, was
shaped. It describes the political and intellectual contexts that helped form
the unyielding principles by which Chomsky lives, and the arenas of
scholarship, political action, and ideology to which he still contributes.
Along the way, the book provides an engaging political history of the last
several decades, and many insights into how history too often gets rewritten.
Chomsky's views on the uses and misuses of the university are highlighted, as
are his doubts about the legitimacy of post-modernist inquiry, and his overall
assessment of useful political engagement. In a sense, this book strives to be
the autobiography that Chomsky will probably never write by letting Chomsky
speak for himself on the matters of greatest concern to him, through well-
placed excerpts from his copious body of published writings and unpublished
corespondence.
shaped. It describes the political and intellectual contexts that helped form
the unyielding principles by which Chomsky lives, and the arenas of
scholarship, political action, and ideology to which he still contributes.
Along the way, the book provides an engaging political history of the last
several decades, and many insights into how history too often gets rewritten.
Chomsky's views on the uses and misuses of the university are highlighted, as
are his doubts about the legitimacy of post-modernist inquiry, and his overall
assessment of useful political engagement. In a sense, this book strives to be
the autobiography that Chomsky will probably never write by letting Chomsky
speak for himself on the matters of greatest concern to him, through well-
placed excerpts from his copious body of published writings and unpublished
corespondence.
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