"On Nature and Language” is the name of a recent book of Noam Chomsky including three lectures on linguistics and also his political ideas on contemporary world events like dangers of democracy, secularism and western media.

IBNA: Mohammad Farokhi Yekta, translator of the book, announced its publication by Rouzbehan in the near future.

He said, “On Nature and Language is a recent book of Noam Chomsky published in 2002 and including three lectures made in Italy 1999. The first chapter is the editor’s foreword as a fundamental overview of linguistic theory.”

He then referred to a panorama of mind and language as the subject of another lecture and said, “In this lecture, Chomsky provides a concise history of the study of mind and language, and meanwhile he explains the viewpoints which caused the primary cognitive revolutions”.

Farokhi Yekta continued, “This linguist talks about the future horizons of unity in neural sciences and linguistics and elaborates on some viewpoints and dominant theories in this field. He finally refers to himself as the only one with a logical approach to this issue.”

He then said the final chapter is different from its other parts and explained, “This section deals with political ideas of Chomsky on contemporary trends of spiritualism, secularism, and dangers of democracy in the contemporary world.”

He added, “Chomsky explains that intellectuals and media in the west play a role similar to their counterparts in east only that western intellectuals have surrendered to the dominant regime’s ideology without any resistance, official limitations or external force”.

“Chomsky concludes that the status of liberty and information accessibility in the west and east do not differ much except that in the east there is little access to information despite massive request whereas in the west, there is a huge bulk of information and no public attention.”

Farokhi Yekta explained, “Chomsky takes two of Isaiah Berlin’s Rancorous and Commissar at the beginning of his discussions. By Rancorous, Berlin means those intellectuals in the soviet regime who were accused of having certain ideas, whereas intellectuals loyal to the eastern party are called Commissar. Chomsky also criticized the functions of western media in this book.”

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