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You've made a category error here. "Generative semantics" does not contrast with "generative grammar"; it contrasts with "interpretive semantics". See the Wikipedia article, which says:
Note that "grammar" in linguistics is not a synonym for "syntax"; it is the comprehensive term for the rules of a language, including syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, etc.
Summary: generative semantics is a school of thought within "generative grammar".
Thanks for the correction. Lakoff and Johnson don't oppose the two terms in their book, and my brief glance at Wikipedia misled my impression of how linguists are drawing up the boundaries around their categories.
The chapter on Chomsky is contrasting the generative grammar approach, which Lakoff used to work within, to the cognitive science inspired cognitive linguistics approach, which Lakoff has been working in for the last few decades. Cognitive linguistics includes cognitive semantics which is rather different to generative semantics.