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Chomsky Notebook

Edited by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck

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Paper, 360 pages, 6 illus., 1 table
ISBN: 978-0-231-14475-9
$29.50 / £20.50

January, 2010
Cloth, 360 pages, 6 illus., 1 table
ISBN: 978-0-231-14474-2
$89.50 / £62.00

Part I. Chomsky

1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?, by Noam Chomsky

2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture, by Noam Chomsky

Part II. Introductions

3. Chomsky, France, Reason, Power, by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck

4. An Interview with Noam Chomsky, by Jean Bricmont

Part III. Linguistic Theory and Language Processes

5. The Varying Aims of Linguistic Theory, by Cédric Boeckx and Norbert Hornstein

6. Language, Thought, and Reality After Chomsky, by Gennaro Chierchia

7. Generative Syntax in the Brain, by Yosef Grodzinsky

Part IV. Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind

8. Learning Organs, by Charles R. Gallistel

9. Innateness, Choice, and Language, by Elizabeth Spelke

10. The Scope and Limits of Chomsky’s Naturalism, by Pierre Jacob

Part V. Chomsky and the Intelligentsia

11. Conspiracy: When Journalists (and Their Favorites) Misrepresent the Critical Analysis of the Media, by Serge Halimi and Arnaud Rindel

12. Noam Chomsky and the University, by Pierre Guerlain

13. The Practice of Intellectual Self-Defense in the University, by Normand Baillargeon

14. Chomsky, Faurisson, and Vidal-Naquet, by Jean Bricmont

15. Chomsky and Bourdieu: A Missed Encounter, by Frédéric Delorca

Part VI. Politics: Theory and Practice

16. Chomsky in France: The Resistance to Pragmatic Anti-Authoritarianism, by Larry Portis

17. Testimony, by Susan George

18. Truth, Balance, and Freedom, by Akeel Bilgrami

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About the Author

Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He has helped to make the political writings of Noam Chomsky known in France after years of blackout. He is the coauthor, with Alan Sokal, of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science.Julie Franck is assistant professor at the Laboratory of Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Geneva. Her research concerns syntax in adults and children.

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