Dimensions
130 x 200 x 8mm
This book introduces you to Noam Chomsky whose first book, 'Syntactic Structures', changed our understanding of what human beings are for the first time since Darwin. He is also a tireless champion of human rights.
Michael Dean's informative text explores:
- Chomsky's linguistic theory from the ground-breaking 'Syntactic Structures' to the present day.
- His ideas on child language acquisition and what they mean to all of us.
- His theory of the mind and how it led us to see ourselves as thinking individuals, not machine-like creatures who respond to a stimulus.
- How his humanism has led him to reject identification with any group and to fight for human rights wherever he see them endangered in the world.
The facts . . . the concepts . . . the ideas . . .
