This book by our member of the Critical Theory group, Julio Bonatti, seeks to understand the construction of the work of the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, as an author who moves between different fields of knowledge.
The intention here is to understand the means by which certain images of authorship are constructed for Chomsky, which give rise to two possible authors: a "double" author and a "single" author.
In this way, we discuss the paths that permeate the creation of the images of a "double Chomsky", which take different paths according to the spaces in which his texts circulate, sometimes privileging the face of the "Chomskyan linguist", other times that of the "political Chomskyan", activist", opposing them in a dispute of editorial management or uniting them under the symbol of the same publication, sustained in a sort of "paratopic unity" of his texts.
However, the construction of authorial images for Chomsky goes beyond a watertight division of his faces, often producing a sense of "totality", of a teleology that integrally permeates his work: there would be a rationalism and a universalism present in his texts that provide argumentative support to mobilize the ethos of "intellectual engagement" in his books of political criticism, creating the image of a "Chomskyan activist-linguist".
Therefore, all the mutations, ruptures and deconstructions that surround the universe of writing make us rethink Chomsky through the prism of discourse analysis, which leads us to delve into the very notion of authorship.
You can purchase the book on the publisher's website.