NOAM CHOMSKY (b. 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, historian, social critic and political activist. His work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Chomsky also gained a worldwide following as a political dissident for his analyses of the pernicious influence of economic elites on U.S. domestic politics, foreign policy, and intellectual culture. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
During his postgraduate work, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES (1957), which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B. F. Skinner.
Chomsky's status as the "most-quoted living author" is credited to his political writings, which vastly outnumber his publications on linguistics. As an outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of imperialism, Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" (1967). Associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's Enemies List. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in MANUFACTURING CONSENT (1988) and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of freedom of speech, including Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Since retiring from MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement.
Chomsky has influenced a broad array of academic fields. He is widely recognized as having helped to spark the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. In addition to his continued scholarship, he remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, neoliberalism and contemporary state capitalism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mainstream news media. His ideas are highly influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements, but have also drawn criticism, with some accusing Chomsky of anti-Americanism.
The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:
== ON POLITICS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS ==
* 9-11: Was There an Alternative? (Seven Stories, 2011) — ePUB
* A New Generation Draws the Line (Routledge, 2016) — PDF
* Acts of Aggression: Policing ''Rogue States'' (Seven Stories, 2001) — ePUB + PDF
* After the Cataclysm (Haymarket, 2014) — ePUB
* American Power and the New Mandarins (Pantheon, 1969) — PDF
* At War with Asia: Essays on Indochina (Pantheon, 1970) — PDF
* Because We Say So (City Lights, 2015) — ePUB
* Chomsky-Foucault Debate (New Press, 2006) — ePUB + PDF
* Chomsky Notebook (Columbia, 2010). J. Franck, ed. — PDF
* Chomsky on Anarchism (AK Press, 2005). B. Pateman, ed. — ePUB + PDF
* Chomsky on Mis-Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). D. Macedo, ed. — ePUB
* Chomsky Reader, The (Pantheon, 1987). J. Peck, ed. — ePUB
* Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal [with R. Pollin] (Verso, 2020) — ePUB
* Cold War and the University, The (New Press, 1997). A. Schiffrin, ed. — PDF
* Counter-Revolutionary Violence (Warner Modular, 1973) — PDF
* Culture of Terrorism (Haymarket/Pluto, 2015) — ePUB + PDF
* Deterring Democracy (Hill & Wang, 2011) — ePUB
* Essential Chomsky, The (New Press, 2008). A. Arnove, ed. — ePUB + PDF
* Failed States: Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Holt, 2006) — ePUB
* Fateful Triangle, The (Haymarket, 2014). Updated edition. — ePUB + PDF
* For Reasons of State (Pantheon, 1973) — PDF
* Gaza in Crisis [with Ilan Pappé] (Haymarket, 2013) — ePUB + PDF
* Government in the Future (Seven Stories, 2005) — ePUB
* Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Holt, 2004) — ePUB
* Hopes and Prospects (Haymarket, 2010) — ePUB + PDF
* How the World Works (Soft Skull, 2011). A. Naiman, ed. — ePUB
* Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (Metropolitan, 2005) — ePUB
* Internationalism or Extinction (Routledge, 2020). C. Derber et al, eds. — ePUB + PDF
* Interventions (City Lights, 2007) — ePUB
* Language and Politics, 2e (AK, 2004). C. Otero, ed. — PDF
* Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization (Ocean, 1999) — PDF
* Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda (Common Courage, 1993) — PDF
* Making the Future (City Lights, 2012) — ePUB
* Manufacturing Consent [with E. Herman] (Pantheon, 2011) — ePUB
* Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013 (Haymarket, 2014) — ePUB
* Media Control, 2e (Seven Stories, 2002) — ePUB
* Middle East Illusions (Roman & Littlefield, 2003) — PDF
* Necessary Illusions (Anansi, 2003) — ePUB + PDF
* New World of Indigenous Resistance (City Lights, 2010). L. Meyer, ed. — PDF
* Nuclear War & Environmental Catastrophe [with L. Polk] (Seven Stories, 2013) — ePUB
* Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship (New Press, 2003) — PDF
* Occupy, 2e (Zuccotti Park, 2013) — ePUB
* On Anarchism (New Press, 2013) — ePUB
* On Palestine [with I. Pappé] (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB
* On Power and Ideology (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB + PDF
* On Western Terrorism [with A. Vltchek] (Pluto, 2017) — PDF
* Optimism over Despair [with C.J. Polychroniou] (Haymarket, 2017) — ePUB
* Peace in the Middle East? (Vintage, 1974) — PDF
* Perilous Power [with G. Achcar] (Routledge, 2016) — ePUB + PDF
* Pirates and Emperors, Old and New (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB + PDF
* Power and Terror (Routledge, 2016) — ePUB + PDF
* Powers and Prospects (Haymarket, 1996) — ePUB + PDF
* Problems of Knowledge and Freedom (Pantheon, 1971) — PDF
* Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order (Seven Stories, 1998) — ePUB
* Radical Priorities, 2e (Black Rose, 1984). C. Otero, ed. — PDF
* Requiem for the American Dream (Seven Stories, 2017) — ePUB
* Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections after 50 years (UCL, 2019). Allott, ed. — PDF
* Responsibility of Intellectuals, The (New Press, 2017) — ePUB
* Rethinking Camelot (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB + PDF
* Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB
* Terrorizing the Neighborhood: US Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (AK, 1991) — PDF
* Towards a New Cold War (Pantheon, 1982) — PDF
* Turning the Tide (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB + PDF
* Umbrella of U.S. Power, The (Seven Stories, 1999) — ePUB
* Understanding Power (New Press, 2002). Mitchell & Schoeffel, eds. — ePUB + PDF
* Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, The (Haymarket, 2014) — ePUB
* What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia, 2016) — ePUB + PDF
* What Uncle Sam Really Wants (Odonian, 1992) — PDF
* What We Say Goes (Allen & Unwin, 2007) — ePUB + PDF
* What We Say Goes (Metropolitan, 2007) — ePUB
* Who Rules the World? (Penguin, 2017) — ePUB
* World Orders: Old and New (Columbia, 1994) — PDF
* Year 501: The Conquest Continues (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB + PDF
* Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution (PM, 2018). D. Dzalto, ed. — ePUB + PDF
== ON LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS ==
* Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (MIT, 2015) — PDF
* Barriers (MIT, 1986) — PDF
* Cartesian Linguistics (Cambridge, 2009) — ePUB + PDF
* Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (Mouton, 1970) — PDF
* Essays on Form and Interpretation (North-Holland, 1977) — PDF
* Generative Enterprise Revisited, The (Mouton, 2004) — PDF
* Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin and Use (Praeger, 1968) — PDF
* Language and Mind, 3e (Cambridge, 2006) — ePUB + PDF
* Language and Problems of Knowledge (MIT, 1988) — PDF
* Language and Responsibility (Pantheon, 1979) — PDF
* Language and Thought (Moyer Bell, 1993) — PDF
* Lectures on Government and Binding (Mouton, 1993) — PDF
* Minimalist Program, The (MIT, 2015) — PDF
* Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (Routledge, 2011) — PDF
* New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (Cambridge, 2000) — PDF
* Of Minds and Language (Oxford, 2009). M. Piattelli-Palmarini, ed. — ePUB + PDF
* On Language (New Press, 2007) — ePUB
* On Nature and Language (Cambridge, 2002) — PDF
* Reflections on Language (Pantheon, 1975) — PDF
* Rules and Representations (Columbia, 2005) — PDF
* Selected Readings on Transformational Theory (Dover, 2009) — ePUB
* Some Concepts & Consequences of Theory of Government & Binding (1982) — PDF
* Sound Pattern of English [with M. Halle] (Harper & Row, 1968) — PDF
* Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar (Mouton, 1976) — PDF
* Syntactic Structures (Mouton, 2002) — PDF
* Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar (Mouton, 1978) — PDF
* Why Only Us: Language and Evolution [with R. Berwick] (MIT, 2016) — ePUB + PDF
== INTERVIEWS ==
* Chronicles of Dissent [with D. Barsamian] (Common Courage, 1992) — PDF
* Class Warfare [with D. Barsamian] (Common Courage, 1996) — PDF
* Common Good, The [with D. Barsamian] (Odonian, 1998) — PDF
* Global Discontents [with D. Barsamian] (Holt, 2017) — ePUB
* Keeping the Rabble in Line [with D. Barsamian] (Common Courage, 1994) — PDF
* Power Systems [with D. Barsamian] (Metropolitan, 2013) — ePUB
* Propaganda and the Public Mind [with D. Barsamian] (Haymarket, 2015) — ePUB
* Prosperous Few and the Restless Many [with D. Barsamian] (Odonian, 1993) — PDF
* Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender (2011). P. Orelus, ed. — ePUB
* Science of Language, The [with J. McGilvray] (Cambridge, 2012) — ePUB + PDF
* Secrets, Lies and Democracy [with D. Barsamian] (Odonian, 1994) — PDF
* Stenographers To Power [with D. Barsamian] (Common Courage, 1992) — PDF
* Targeting Iran [with D. Barsamian] (City Lights, 2007) — PDF
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