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The Chomsky effect : a radical works beyond the Ivory tower / Robert F. Barsky.

By: Barsky, Robert F.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007Description: xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262026246 (hbk.); 0262026244 (hbk.).Subject(s): Chomsky, Noam -- Influence | Chomsky, Noam -- Criticism and interpretation | Liberalism | Anarchism | Political science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 320.512
Contents:
Preface -- I: Dissent - 1. The Chomsky effect within and beyond the Ivory tower - 2. Resisting and reviling the Chomsky effect - 3. Effective precursors: anarchists, cartesians, liberals and the radical left -- II: Milieus - 4. Just effects: Chomsky on law, ethics and human rights - 5. Effective teaching: from catalyst to institute professor - 6. Obfuscating the Chomsky effect: media, propaganda, and postmodern language studies - 7. Literature, humor, and the effects of creative discourses - 8. The effective "public" intellectual - Index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-367) and index.

Preface -- I: Dissent - 1. The Chomsky effect within and beyond the Ivory tower - 2. Resisting and reviling the Chomsky effect - 3. Effective precursors: anarchists, cartesians, liberals and the radical left -- II: Milieus - 4. Just effects: Chomsky on law, ethics and human rights - 5. Effective teaching: from catalyst to institute professor - 6. Obfuscating the Chomsky effect: media, propaganda, and postmodern language studies - 7. Literature, humor, and the effects of creative discourses - 8. The effective "public" intellectual - Index.