Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-xi, [6], 4-111, [1] pp. As new book and dj. Unmarked inside. 1971. Just a few fox spots on fron edge. Orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket.Very scarce.

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Title

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures

Publisher

Pantheon

Publication Date

1971

Language

English

ISBN 10

0394472608

ISBN 13

9780394472607

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

As new

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English & American Literature: Critical Studies

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From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky's early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics.

Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in Vietnam.

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, Wittgenstein, von Humboldt, 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—his criticisms of the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, of the centralization of US decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, and of the politicization of American universities in the post- World War II years, as well as his analyses of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nixon's foreign policies.

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Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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