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Robert F. Barsky Vanderbilt University Cohen-Cole’s book, that discusses the “open-mind” attitude that was promoted to address the threat posed by Communism and, moreover, the rise of social conformity, homogeneity and mass consumption in America, is a valuable supplement to existing research into this period and adds components that I find eye-opening and provocative. The Open Mind project involved many individuals associated with the milieus of Harris, Chomsky and Avukah, and in its psychological dimensions it intersected with related efforts promoted by Harris and by the many Avukahites who had interest in psychoanalysis and eventually cognitive sciences and work in Artificial Intelligence. Furthermore, it discusses a crucial period when Chomsky began to articulate an approach to the human mind that was opposed to Zellig Harris’s structuralism and information theory approaches, that were premised upon a behaviorist model for the human brain. |
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| Web Page: | http://www.robertbarsky.org |
| List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-Socialisms |
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Bio: Robert F. Barsky is a Professor at Vanderbilt University. He has published widely in areas relating to language theory, Convention refugee adjudication, and border studies, and he is the author of a trilogy of books about the milieus of Noam Chomsky and Zellig Harris. His newest book, "Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and Plight of People Deemed 'Illegal'", is due out with Routledge law in the summer of 2015 |
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