The Anti-Chomsky Reader

The Anti-Chomsky Reader
Editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz
Country United States
Language English
Subject Noam Chomsky
Published 2004 (Encounter Books)
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 240
ISBN 1-893554-97-X
OCLC 54966287
191 22
LC Class P85.C47 A84 2004

The Anti-Chomsky Reader is a 2004 criticism of the political and linguistic writings of Noam Chomsky. Several authors contributed to it under the editorship of Peter Collier and David Horowitz.

Contents

The Anti-Chomsky Reader contains the following articles:

Reviews

Keith Windschuttle, in a review in the conservative magazine New Criterion, states that "Collier, Horowitz, and their six other authors have produced a book that has long been needed. It provides a penetrating coverage of the disgraceful career of a disgraceful but very influential man, who has so far avoided a criticism as thoroughgoing as this."[2]

Mark Bauerlein, in a generally positive review in the libertarian magazine Reason, claims that "Collier and Horowitz understand well the manufactured reality of political fame, and to dismantle it requires not contrary vitriol or clever rejoinders but direct, fact-based assertions that undermine the authenticity of the image. To that end, the contributors follow a simple procedure: Quote actual statements by Chomsky and test them for evidence and logic. The best contributions to the volume add the effective and timely tactic of citing Chomsky's progressive virtues and revealing how smoothly he abandons them."[3]


References

  1. Reply to Werner Cohn by Noam Chomsky. Outlook, June 1, 1989
  2. Windschuttle, Keith (September 2004). "A disgraceful career". The New Criterion. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  3. Bauerlein, Mark (April 2005). "Deconstructing Chomsky". Reason. Retrieved 2008-10-10.

Reviews

Response

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/18/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.