Chomsky and Deconstruction The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge
This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky's criticism against deconstructive theories of language. The author reveals the connections between Chomsky's linguistic theories and politics by demonstrating their shared philosophical bas
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Christopher Wise, Previous Publications The Timbuktu Chronicles, 1493–1599 C.E.: Al Hajj Mahmud Kati’s Tarikh al-fattash (2011) Being Arab: Arabism and the Politics of Recognition (2010) Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East (2009) The Yambo Ouologuem Reader (2008) Developing American Studies at Arab Universities (2004) The Parachute Drop (2004), by Norbert Zongo (Christopher Wise, translator) The Desert Shore Literatures of the Sahel (2001) Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (1999) Litteratures du Sahel (1998) The Marxian Hermeneutics of Fredric Jameson (1995)
Chomsk y a n d D econst ruc t ion Th e Pol i t ic s of Uncons c ious K now l e d g e
Ch r i stop h e r Wi se
CHOMSKY AND DECONSTRUCTION
Copyright © Christopher Wise, 2011. All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
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DOI 10.1057/9780230117051 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wise, Christopher, 1961– Chomsky and deconstruction : the politics of unconscious knowledge / Christopher Wise. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Chomsky, Noam. 2. Deconstruction. 3. Linguistics—Philosophy. 4. Language and languages—Philosophy. I. Title. P85.C47W573 2011 410.92—dc22
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A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: February 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Rosanne Kanhai and Bongasu Tanala Kishani
All of this is done without reasons, just as we follow rules ourselves without having reasons (“blindly”). —Noam Chomsky
Con t e n t s
Introduction: The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge
1
One
Cerebral Hermeneutics
21
Two
The Ungiven-Given
63
Three
Locke’s “Misreading” of Descartes and Other Fairy Tales
107
Four
Identity Politics and the Pedagogy of Competence
135
Notes
163
Works Cited
183
Index
193
I n t roduc t ion Th e Pol i t ic s of Unconsc ious K now l e d g e
It is not enough to have ideas. One must also have thoughts. —Friedrich Nietzsche By rights, the content of historical and positive knowledge is not required, as shocking as that may appear. It remains external to the philosophical act as such. —Jacques Derrida
The following book on Noam Chomsky is written in response to my own situation as a professor of English and Comparative Literature in the United States. Before writing this book, I sometimes taught Chomsky’s
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