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Author Chomsky, Noam.

Title Powers and prospects : reflections on human nature and the social order / Noam Chomsky.

Imprint Boston, MA : South End Press, c1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  410.1 C454p, 1996    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xii, 244 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.
Contents Language and thought -- Language and nature -- Writers and intellectual responsibility -- Goals and visions -- Democracy and markets in the new world order -- The Middle East settlement -- The great powers and human rights -- East Timor and world order.
Summary Eight essays, based on talks given during a week in Australia in 1995, bring together world-renowned linguist and outspoken critic of US foreign policy Chomsky's latest thinking. His topics encompass a wide scope from language and human nature, to the Middle East settlement, to the place of East Timor in the new world order.
Note 35902004207268 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz.
Subject Language and languages -- Philosophy.
World politics -- 1989-
Philosophical anthropology.
Cover Title Powers & prospects
ISBN 089608535X (paper)
0896085368 (cloth)
9780896085367 (cloth)
9780896085350 (paper)

 
    
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