Reviews for The Chomsky reader

The average rating for The Chomsky reader based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-27 00:00:00 Joanne Crockett Reading this book was an affirmation of an established principle of mine. If you vehemently disagree with someone, read their book and make an effort to understand their thinking. Then make up your mind. Chomsky is generally dismissed as an iconoclastic far-left gadfly, an academic who veered far off course from his primary area of expertise, linguistics. You will not find a kind word about him in National Review or possibly even in mainstream media. Notwithstanding, and coming from this traditional conservative/libertarian, Chomsky is extremely intelligent and knows how to frame an argument. Many of the essays in this book were written more than 40 years ago. His comments were quite prescient. The problems he identified still remain. He is one of those intellectuals that you may disagree with but whom you would never, ever want to debate. He is simply too well-read and informed. This book probably deserves a 4.5 but admittedly, my own biases prohibited me from bestowing this. Neverthess, a most worthy read.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-03-30 00:00:00 Bernard Goodno Everything about Chomsky is so cool and interesting except actually reading him. I mean its ok but I have a hard time getting into the mid 80's political lanscape of Nicaragua right now. So I tried his linguistics stuff, oh brother... Whatever, he's still a fucking genius.