2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PART I. CHOMSKY
4. 1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden? 3
5. 2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture 34
6. PART II. INTRODUCTIONS
7. 3. Chomsky, France, Reason, Power 53
8. 4. An Interview with Noam Chomsky 74
9. PART III. LINGUISTIC THEORY AND LANGUAGE PROCESSES
10. 5. The Varying Aims of Linguistic Theory 115
11. 6. Language, Thought, and Reality After Chomsky 142
12. 7. Generative Syntax in the Brain 170
13. PART IV. COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
14. 8. Learning Organs 193
15. 9. Innateness, Choice, and Language 203
16. 10. The Scope and Limits of Chomsky’s Naturalism 211
17. PART V. CHOMSKY AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA
18. 11. Conspiracy: When Journalists (and Their Favorites) Misrepresent the Critical Analysis of the Media 239
19. 12. Noam Chomsky and the University 258
20. 13. The Practice of Intellectual Self-Defense in the University 283
21. 14. Chomsky, Faurisson, and Vidal-Naquet 292
22. 15. Chomsky and Bourdieu: A Missed Encounter 309
23. PART VI. POLITICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
24. 16. Chomsky in France: The Resistance to Pragmatic Anti-Authoritarianism 319
25. 17. Testimony 331
26. 18. Truth, Balance, and Freedom 334
27. Contributors 349