Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime

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Noam Chomsky, James Kelman: Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime (2021, PM Press)

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Published Dec. 22, 2021 by PM Press.

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James Kelman started his correspondence with Noam Chomsky in 1988. This book is not dissimilar in how correspondence between two individuals work in earnest: it's back-and-forth, torn between different subjects, and not always in agreement.

This book not only serves as a cachet of printed letters but also as a small biography of Chomsky, a sort of binder of speeches that Chomsky held while in the UK, and as a container for some of Kelman's political and humanist ideas.

At the start of this book, Kelman reaches for what is one of Chomsky's core political tenets: the idea that anarchy is a human tendency, what Bakunin called 'an instinct for freedom':

> Rousseau is an important thinker for Chomsky. It was what Rousseau perceived as the strength of the will to self-determination that led him to propose “the struggle for freedom [as] an essential human attribute.”

Kelman ponders on Chomsky's …

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James Kelman started his correspondence with Noam Chomsky in 1988. This book is not dissimilar in how correspondence between two individuals work in earnest: it's back-and-forth, torn between different subjects, and not always in agreement.returnreturnThis book not only serves as a cachet of printed letters but also as a small biography of Chomsky, a sort of binder of speeches that Chomsky held while in the UK, and as a container for some of Kelman's political and humanist ideas.returnreturnAt the start of this book, Kelman reaches for what is one of Chomsky's core political tenets: the idea that anarchy is a human tendency, what Bakunin called 'an instinct for freedom':returnreturn> Rousseau is an important thinker for Chomsky. It was what Rousseau perceived as the strength of the will to self-determination that led him to propose “the struggle for freedom as an essential human attribute.”returnreturnKelman ponders on Chomsky's ideas of the so-called …

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