Professor Noam Chomsky FBA

Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language

Elected 1974

Fellow type: Corresponding Fellow
Year elected: 1974
Sections: Philosophy
Website: http://www.chomsky.info/

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT; Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair, University of Arizona

Past appointments

MIT Linguistics and Philosophy Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics emeritus

1955 - 2017

Top picks

In Conversation with Noam Chomsky - A British Academy event

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Professor Noam Chomsky’s work over the past 60 years has profoundly changed the way we think about language. In this video he talks about his reflections on a lifetime of linguistics research and as one of the leading thinkers of our time.

Well-being with Noam Chomsky, Marina Warner, AC Grayling, John Kay and Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws

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Noam Chomsky, Marina Warner, AC Grayling, John Kay and Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws answer the questions: What is well-being? How can governments increase well-being?

The Chomsky Effect With Robert Barsky

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Noam Chomsky had two giant careers: one in the science of language, another in the rough and tumble of anti-war politics, beckoning the question is it one Chomsky or two?

Publications

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

Noam Chomsky - Published in 2017 by The New Press

Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky’s essay eviscerated the “hypocritical moralism of the past” (such as when Woodrow Wilson set out to teach Latin Americans “the art of good government”) and exposed the shameful policies in Vietnam and the role of intellectuals in justifying it.

Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy (The American Empire Project)

Noam Chomsky - Published in 2017 by Metropolitan Books

In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider “the world we are leaving to our grandchildren”: one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it’s up to us to radically change it.

Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change

Noam Chomsky - Published in 2017 by Haymarket Books

Wide-ranging interviews on war, power, and politics with Noam Chomsky, the world's leading critic of US foreign policy. This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive.”

Requiem for the American Dream

Noam Chomsky - Published in 2017 by Seven Stories Press

In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today?

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