- Hardback - Number of Pages: 304 pages
- Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 30mm - 657g
- Publication date: 27 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: New Haven, United States
- Language: English
"Decoding Chomsky reads like a detective novel. So many of the arguments I found right on the mark, but I would recommend it just for the pleasure of reading Knight's great English prose, particularly his talent for understatement. A truly fantastic work, simply brilliant. I could not put it down." - Luc Steels, Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona. -- Luc Steele "I can say that this is the best critique of Chomsky from the left that I have ever read. I disagree with Knight quite profoundly on a number of key issues, but in every chapter I learned something new and, in fact, found myself agreeing with him more and more as the book progressed." - Frederick Newmeyer, author of 'The Politics of Linguistics'. -- Frederick Newmeyer "This is Chomsky from a new perspective, the perspective of a social anthropologist. It connects his science with his politics in a novel and convincing way. Knight has dug deeper and made more interconnections than anyone has done before. The result is truly revelatory." - Micha...