Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent by Robert F. Barsky

Barsky, Robert F. Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. Cambridge: MIT 1997. Pp. 237.

Two large and complex questions, Where does commitment come and What is its nature? are raised and to an impressive degree an Robert Barsky’s Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. Chomsky’s participation in a range of intellectual and scientific endeavors proves to be fertile ground for Barsky’s exploration of structures that lie hidden within some of the most significant political and linguistic-scientific activity of the last half-century.