The Freedom Instinct, Essays on Philosophy, Anarchism, and Human Nature

Noam Chomsky enjoys great fame in the Arab world, as a writer who works to expose the foreign policies of the United States of America and its allies, and as a linguist who founded the theory of generative grammar. However, Chomsky is also a first-class philosopher; He wrote on political philosophy, epistemology, the philosophy of mathematics, logic, the mind-body problem, and other traditional philosophical topics. We would like to present to the Arab reader a part of Chomsky''s philosophical work, due to its philosophical importance, on the one hand, and its direct connection to our current and pressing questions about the issues of freedom and liberation, cultural specificities, the role of intellectuals in the struggle for liberation, and other topics, on the other hand. The articles translated here include topics in epistemology, the foundations of science, rationality, the role of intellectuals, and the relationship between philosophical work and political activity, and are united by one main topic: freedom.