Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

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Overview

“The world is full of information. What do we do when we get the information, when we have digested the information, what do we do then? Is there a point where ye say, yes, stop, now I shall move on.”

This exhilarating collection of essays, interviews, and correspondence—spanning the years 1988 through 2018, and reaching back a decade more—is about the simple concept that ideas matter. They mutate, inform, create fuel for thought, and inspire actions.<.p>

As Kelman says, the State relies on our suffocation, that we cannot hope to learn “the truth. But whether we can or not is beside the point. We must grasp the nettle, we assume control and go forward.”

Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime is an impassioned, elucidating, and often humorous collaboration. Philosophical and intimate, it is a call to ponder, imagine, explore, and act.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629639000
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 11/30/2021
Series: Kelman Library , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

James Kelman was born in Glasgow, June 1946, and left school in 1961. He began work in the printing trade then moved around, working in various jobs in various places. He was living in England when he started writing: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria. He committed to it and kept at it. In 1969 he met and married Marie Connors from South Wales. They settled in Glasgow and still live in the dump, not far from their kids and grandkids. He still plugs away at the ramblings, musings, politicking and so on, supported by the same lady.

Noam Chomsky is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics and Chomsky is one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. His recent books include Who Rules the World? and Hopes and Prospects.

Table of Contents

Introduction James Kelman 1

Correspondence One 11

A Reading from Noam Chomsky and the Scottish Tradition in the Philosophy of Common Sense James Kelman 29

Correspondence Two 77

At the Self-Determination & Power Event

Introducing Day One James Kelman 92

Containing the Threat of Democracy: A Keynote Address Noam Chomsky 97

Introducing Day Two James Kelman 130

Common Sense and Freedom Noam Chomsky 135

A Response to Noam Chomsky George E. Davie 141

Interview with Noam Chomsky, January 11, 1990 Professor Gus John 149

Terrorizing the Neighborhood: American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Noam Chomsky 167

Correspondence Three 203

In Conversation: James Kelman and Noam Chomsky, 2004 229

Correspondence Four 237

Afterword: Ideas and Dialogue James Kelman 243

Index 268

About the Authors 275

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