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Noam Chomsky: On Power, Knowledge and Human Nature

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  • © 1997

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  1. Peter Wilkin

    1. Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Modernity, Human Nature and Knowledge

    • Peter Wilkin
    Pages 1-24

  3. Chomsky’s Methodological Naturalism

    • Peter Wilkin
    Pages 25-53

  4. Chomsky’s Naturalism and Political Philosophy

    • Peter Wilkin
    Pages 54-84

  5. The Responsibility of Intellectuals

    • Peter Wilkin
    Pages 85-114

  6. Political Culture in the USA: Manufacturing Consent

    • Peter Wilkin
    Pages 115-149

  7. Chomsky on Libertarian Socialism

    • Peter Wilkin
    Pages 150-174

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 175-203
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Noam Chomsky is among the most influential contemporary thinkers. Peter Wilkin looks in particular at the philosophical basis of his social and political thought, especially his ideal about power, knowledge and human nature. He shows how Chomsky's ideas can help to defend naturalism as in social and political thought. Chomsky's critical writings of social inquiry and his normative ideas on libertarian socialism and human emancipation are interpreted as synthesising a number of important ideas and approaches at a time when these ideas have fallen out of favour.

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  • Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, UK

    Peter Wilkin

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