Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism

by Robert F Barsky and Robert F. Barsky

Book Overview

The intersecting worlds of Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky's intellectual and political mentor.

In 1995, Robert Barsky met with Noam Chomsky to discuss hiswork-in-progress, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (MIT Press, 1997). Chomsky told Barsky that he shouldfocus his attention instead on midcentury linguist and activist Zellig Harris, who was, Chomsky modestly insisted, more interesting than Chomsky himself. Intrigued, Barsky began to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262015269
• ISBN13: 9780262015264
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher