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Left-Libertarians: Noam Chomsky, Neil Peart, Billie Joe Armstrong, Anti-Flag, Henry George, Gary Chartier, Karl Hess, Matthew Bellamy |
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118 |
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2010-09-15 |
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1155536509 |
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Books LLC |
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0.4 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches |
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Chapters: Noam Chomsky, Neil Peart, Billie Joe Armstrong, Anti-Flag, Henry George, Gary Chartier, Karl Hess, Matthew Bellamy, Kevin Carson, Justin Sane, Sheldon Richman, Samuel Edward Konkin Iii, Roderick Long. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 117. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Avram Noam Chomsky (pronounced , Hebrew: ; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist. In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. His approach to the study of language emphasizes "an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans" known as universal grammar, "the initial state of the language learner," and discovering an "account for linguistic variation via the most general possible mechanisms." He elaborated on these ideas in 1957's Syntactic Structures, which then laid the groundwork for the concept of transformational grammar. He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Chomsky published a widely influential review of B. F. Skinner's theoretical book Verbal Behavior. In this review and other writings, Chomsky broadly and aggressively challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time, and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic approach to the study of la...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21566
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