Introducing Chomsky

The graphic introduction, from the Icon/Totem “Introducing” series: text copyright 1996 JOHN MAHER, illustrations copyright 1996 JUDY GROVES, originating editor Richard Appignanesi; FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1997 by Totem Books. ISBN 1 874166 42 0; LC 96-061111; $10.95. It opens on a photograph of Maher standing beside Chomsky and runs the argument as a dialogue in speech balloons — “There are two ‘Chomskys’”, the linguist and the critic of state violence, “both … heir to the Enlightenment tradition”. The lightest book on the Chomsky shelf and the one most likely to be lent to a student.