New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2016. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist's perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and mind. Knight explores the social and institutional context of Chomsky's thinking, showing how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science on the one hand, politics on the other, deepening a spilit between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment.