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Chris had to write this to work out what connected his science and his politics in complete contradiction. Only then could he start on his latest work on 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP, due late 2026, with Jerome Lewis)
Here's a free download of Chris' excellent book:
https://z-lib.gl/book/4999344/4bdcce/decoding-chomsky-science-and-revolutionary-politics.html
Chomsky has had towering impact since the 50s on the cognitive revolution across the human sciences, far beyond linguistics, matching his extraordinary prominence as virtually the conscience of America. In 'Decoding Chomsky', Chris tried to work out what connected his science and his politics, with the Two Chomskys apparently 'not on speaking terms'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoding_Chomsky
Chris had to write this to work out what connected his science and his politics in complete contradiction. Only then could he start on his latest work on 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' (Yale UP, due late 2026, with Jerome Lewis)
Here's a free download of Chris' excellent book:
https://z-lib.gl/book/4999344/4bdcce/decoding-chomsky-science-and-revolutionary-politics.html
Chris writes: 'Some... blamed his behaviour on a blindness... to gender issues and.. problems of sexual violence' referring to the horrible email on 'the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women'. And we remember the peculiar historic association, from the classical Greek, of women's wombs with the word 'hysteria'.
Chomsky's politics always lacked a sex/gender component and so does his thinking on the emergence of language. His Cartesian 2nd Cognitive Revolution in linguistics celebrated Mind over matter, with the body completely subsumed.
A (potentially-temporary) instance for playing with Bonfire.
