Social Theory & Practice, 0037802X, Summer99, Vol. 25, Issue 2
Database: Academic Search Premier
CHOMSKY AND FOUCAULT ON HUMAN NATURE AND POLITICS: AN ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE?
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Problems of Essence in Social and Political Thought
a. Reductionism/Biologism
b. Homogenization/Determinism
c. Social Constructivism(n19)
3. Anti-Essentialism and Political Practice
4. Chomsky on Human Nature
a. Chomsky's Rationalism--An Innatist Fallacy?
b. A Realist Ontology?
5. Defending Essentialism: Chomsky's Contribution
a. Biologism/Reductionism
b. Homogenization/Determinism
c. Discourses and Social Construction
6. Conclusions: Social Change and Emancipation
Notes
