De la Guerre Comme Politique

Noam Chomsky is one of the most widely published and influential thinkers on language and mind. He has consistently maintained that beings are genetically endowed with an language faculty - a set of principles that constitute what he calls the 'Universal Grammar'. Particular languages are generated by specific environmental conditions. This approach to the of languages has been called a 'generative rise' and has revolutionized our understanding of human languages and other cognitive systems.
This book consists of the edited transcript of a lecture, delivered at the University of Delhi in January 1996, where Chomsky reflected on the history of the enterprise and related it to some strikingly novel advances in recent grammatical theory called the 'Minimalist Programme'. Integrating philosophical and conceptual issues empirical research, he sketched some of the issues that have characterized generative grammar in recent years to chart out the agenda for future research in language theory.
The transcript retains the lively, engaging style for which Chomsky is renowned as a public speaker. It reproduces the interesting discussion that followed the lecture, covering the scope of linguistics, language acquisition, and the theory of language and mind. In his extensive responses to wide-ranging questions, Chomsky goes much beyond the issues raised in the lecture itself.
The volume includes extensive clarificatory notes and references and a complete bibliography of Chomsky's publications on linguistics and cognitive theory. While linguists interested in the internal history of generative linguistics will find this an immensely insightful work, it will also be useful for students and general readers wish to gain an introductory knowledge of the discipline, its significance, and Chomsky's contribution.

The Architecture Of Language

Quel est le rôle de l'État dans une société industrielle
avancée ? Pour répondre à cette question, Chomsky
revisite les fondements idéologiques de quatre modèles de société : le libéralisme classique, le socialisme libertaire, le socialisme d'État et le capitalisme d'État. Le constat qui se dégage d'un bref survol historique est sans appel. N'est qu'imposture, en effet, le parallèle entre le libéralisme, vecteur de l'actuelle mondialisation, et le libéralisme éclairé que prônait par exemple Humdoldt à la fin du dix-huitième siècle. Autre évidence : capitalisme et démocratie sont, au bout du compte, tout à fait incompatibles. Quant au socialisme d'État, qui a engendré la tyrannie soviétique, la cause est déjà entendue. Le socialisme libertaire sur lequel Chomsky a jeté son dévolu consiste à réaliser la synthèse des valeurs du
socialisme et de l'anarchisme. En analysant les tenants et aboutissants du capitalisme d'État tel que pratiqué aujourd'hui, Chomsky nous démontre à quel point la démocratie citoyenne y a été sacrifiée au profit d'une classe dirigeante qui maintient ses acquis et ses profits ; il avance la possibilité et la nécessité de renverser la situation avec un mouvement dédié à l'élimination de l'autorité répressive des grandes corporations et de l'État.
Autant de questions essentielles qui nous font remonter aux sources de la pensée socio-politique de
Chomsky.

Quel rôle pour l'Etat ?

Les événements de ces dernières années sur la scène internationale l'ont abondamment démontré : derrière les « bonnes intentions » que s'attribue par définition l'administration Bush se cache une stratégie impériale fondée notamment sur la notion de « guerre préventive ».Noam Chomsky ne s'arrête pas à ce constat : puisant librement dans son immense culture politique et sa longue expérience pour expliquer le monde d'aujourd'hui, il dissèque de façon magistrale cette « doctrine » et ses antécédents.Bien d'autres sujets sont abordés au fil de ces conversations avec David Barsamian : la propagande et les moyens de s'en protéger, l'éducation, l'armée de métier, le féminisme, le travail de mémoire, la « repentance » sans réparation pour les exactions passées, ou encore la montée du fondamentalisme religieux aux États-Unis.Le résultat est un livre décapant, vivant, plein d'humour, en prise directe sur l'actualité, et surtout exceptionnellement instructif pour mieux l'appréhender. Mais, Noam Chomsky y insiste, il ne suffit pas de comprendre le monde : seul l'effort, individuel et collectif, ingrat, désintéressé et obstinément poursuivi, est capable de le changer.

La doctrine des bonnes intentions : entretiens avec David Barsamian

Les principes fondamentaux de Chomsky sur une science possible de l'esprit et du langage.

Les regles et les representations

'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati RoyIn these incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal, the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale. Illegitimate Authority exposes those who wield power in their own self-interest and plots framework for how we can stand together and fight against injustice.'The West's most prominent critic of US imperialism .

Illegitimate Authority - Facing the Challenges of Our Time

Contains interviews of Noam Chomsky who discusses US foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. This work explores topics, such as: the 2004 presidential campaign and election; the future of Social Security; the increasing threat of global warming; and the dangers presented by the United States' ever-deepening entanglement in Iraq.

Imperial ambitions

From the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from the intellectual responsibility of writers to anarchic visions, from international politics to the politics of language, this book provides a critique of orthodox views and government policy. Chomsky seeks to lift the veil of lies diverting the public from knowledge of the acts being committed in their name and reviews how the new world order is a re-marketing of the same old disorder. The book brings together Chomsky's latest thinking on a broad range of themes, and is based on a series of addresses he delivered to audiences on his 1995 visit to Australia.

Le pouvoir mis à nu

A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. Characterized by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.

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