Dimensions
130 x 198 x 6mm
In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the twentieth centurys most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders onto Dutch television to debate the question: is there an innate human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?
The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and above all serves as a concise introduction to their basic theories.
Noam Chomsky is one of the worlds most famous political activists and intellectuals (in 2005 Chomsky was voted by readers of Prospect magazine to be the worlds leading public intellectual), while Michel Foucaults writings on power, sexuality and knowledge are among the most influential works of the twentieth century (especially on writers in the fields of feminist and queer studies).
