Problems of knowledge and freedom
The Russell Lectures
About this book
"In the first half of this wide-ranging work, Chomsky takes up Russell's lifelong search for the empirical principles of human understanding, in a philosophical overview referencing Hume, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and others. In the following half, aptly-titled "On Changing the World," Chomsky applies these concepts to the issues that would remain the focus of his increasingly political work of the period. These include the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, the centralization of U.S. decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, along with his reflections on the Cuban missile crisis and the mass liberation movements of the era." --Book Jacket.
Subjects
- connaissance, théorie de la
- foreign relations
- kennistheorie
- knowledge, theory of
- knowledge, theory of.
- langage et langues
- language and languages
- language and languages, philosophy
- philosophie
- philosophy
- politics and government
- politieke acties
- politique mondiale
- taal
- theory of knowledge
- world politics