Noam Chomsky on Language, Democracy, and Social Justice

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-17
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
• Vikt: 327 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Counterpoints
• Antal sidor: 148
• Upplaga: 2
• Förlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• ISBN: 9783034358613

• Diskriminering och rättvisa
• Sociala och etiska frågor
• Statsvetenskap och politisk teori
• Filosofiska discipliner

Pierre W. Orelus is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at Fairfield University, where he is teaching philosophy of education. Professor Orelus has authored numerous books, including English Accents Matter: In Pursuit of Accent Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. New York: Routledge. Noam Chomsky is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair at the University of Arizona. Widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics, he developed generative grammar, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the theory of universal grammar. His influential works include Syntactic Structures, Language and Mind, and The Minimalist Program. Chomsky’s scholarship has shaped linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and computer science. A globally recognized public intellectual, he has authored over 100 books and taught for decades at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the University of Arizona in 2017.

«On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice provides a forum for Noam Chomsky to articulate crucial insights, while offering an uplifting narrative describing a concerned individual’s personal correspondence, and then interaction, with Chomsky himself. As such, it’s a useful book that addresses contemporary issues, most notably regarding Haiti, but it’s also a behind-the-scenes description, one of a multitude, of how Chomsky relates to people concerned with making a difference in the world, and what they (and in turn we) can learn from such intellectual, and personal, encounters.» (Robert Barsky, Professor, Vanderbilt University)«On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice is a thoughtful and transformative book that raises crucial questions about the death of democracy and the rise of a unique form of authoritarianism in the United States. Reclaiming the connection between education and social change, it offers its readers an accessible, provocative, and insightful analysis of a number of issues that extend to social justice and the promise of a democracy to come to the savage ideologies, practices, and policies of neoliberalism. Moving lucidly between a language of critique and a discourse of possibility, the book offers a stinging critique of American-style casino capitalism and its attack on those vital public values, ideologies, and institutions that give meaning to any viable democratic society while also providing a number of suggestions about the promise of collective struggle, organized resistance, and the possibilities for a more just future.» (Henry Giroux, Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)«Critical educators such as Pierre W. Orelus have consistently challenged the colonial matrix of power in an attempt to redress the crisis within the geoculture of the modern/ colonial world, and in doing so have challenged epistemologies of power and the social relations of production in which these epistemologies are forged. Professor Orelus is from Haiti, and his interest in learning more about the colonization of his homeland is what first led him to become interested in Noam Chomsky’s work.» (from the foreword by Peter McLaren)« … what is facilitative rather than debilitating about this new book is that it doesn’t only offer a language of critique, it simultaneously creates and encourages a collective praxis to make change in the world.» (from the afterword by Pepi Leistyna)

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