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Noam Chomsky and the Left: Allies or Strange Bedfellows?
http://thewire.in/books/noam-chomsky-and-the-left-allies-or-strange-bedfellowsPublisher: The Wire Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24927 Why does Chomsky always seem to 'stand at a slight angle to the universe' of given wisdom (to borrow E.M. Forster's memorable phrase) in everything he does? The answer is not far to seek, though it has several components. One, Chomsky always insists on thinking everything through to the end. No halfway house for him in anything he ventures on, no ceding of ground to high rhetoric, or to radical impetuosity. Subject Headings |