Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of behavior and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind. He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known for his media criticism and political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth-most cited scholar in any time period.
Books
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship
1969
Profit Over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
1998
Power Systems
Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
2012
The Emerging Framework of World Power
2003
Illusions of the Middle East
2003
How the World Works (Real Story
2011
The Myth of American Idealism
How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
2024
On Palestine
2015
Rules and Representations
1980
Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
1982
American Power and the New Mandarins
1967
What We Say Goes
Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
1849
Counter-Revolutionary Violence
Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda
1973
Language and Problems of Knowledge
The Managua Lectures
1987
New War on Terrorism
2002
Occupy
2012
Government in the Future
1970
An American Addiction
2001
Chronicles of Dissent
Interviews with David Barsamian
1992
Chomsky & Mujica
Sobreviviendo al siglo XXI / Chomsky & Mujica: Surviving the 21st Century
2023
A Livable Future Is Possible
Confronting the Threats to Our Survival
2024
The Imperial Presidency
2005
Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
2006
The Chomsky Reader
1987
After the Cataclysm
1979
Fateful Triangle
The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
1982
Chomsky for Activists
2020
Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
2003
Crisi di civiltà
Pandemia e capitalismo
2020
Power and Terror
Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force
2011
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
1965
The Precipice
Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
2021
Lectures on Government & Binding
1981
The Withdrawal
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power
2022
Terrorism, American style
2003
Class War
The Attack on Working People
1995
Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
2002
Democracy and Power
The Delhi Lectures
2014
On Western Terrorism
From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
2013
Human Nature
Justice Versus Power: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
1974
At War With Asia
Essays on Indochina
1971
Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
1995
New Generation Draws the Line
Kosovo, East Timor, and the "Responsibility to Protect" Today
2000
Notes on Resistance
2022
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
1991
Illegitimate Authority
Facing the Challenges of Our Time
2023
Language and Mind
1968
On Cuba
Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
2024
On Democracy & Education
2002
Power and Terror
Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews
2003
The Common Good
1996
The Cold War and the University
1996
Perilous Power
The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice
2006
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
1972
On Anarchism
2005
Latin America
From Colonization to Globalization
1999
The Essential Chomsky
2008
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
1975
Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
1989
Who Rules the World?
2014
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
1987
Chronicles of Dissent
2022
Optimism over Despair
On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
2017
Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
1995
The Minimalist Program
1995
Syntactic Structures
1957
The Sound Pattern of English
1979
Deterring Democracy
1991
Knowledge of Language
Its Nature, Origins and Use
1966
Radical Priorities
1981
Getting Haiti Right This Time
The U.S. and the Coup
2004
Language and Politics
1988
Internationalism or Extinction
2019
La Sociedad Global
1996
Rogue States
The Rule of Force in World Affairs
1999
Masters of Mankind
Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
2003
On MisEducation
2000
Prospects for Democracy
1995
Chomsky On Anarchism
2010
World Orders, Old and New
1994
POR QUE UCRANIA
2022
Case Studies in Hypocrisy
U.S. Human Rights Policy
2000
Open Media Collection
2003
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I
1979
The Umbrella of U.S. Power
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
1999
Notes on Anarchism
2011
Making the Future
Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
2010
The Culture of Terrorism
1988
Terrorizing the Neighborhood
1991
Global Discontents
Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
2017
Doctrines and Visions
2005
Cómo nos venden la moto
1996
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New
International Terrorism in the Real World
1986
For Reasons of State
1973
New World of Indigenous Resistance
2010
Noam Chomsky on language and cognition
2009
Year 501
The Conquest Continues
1992
Reflections on Language
1975
Free Market Fantasies
Capitalism in the Real World
1997
The Secrets of Words
2022
Language and Responsibility
1977
Hopes and Prospects
2010
Theory and Practice
Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn
2010
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
1967
Chomsky's Linguistics
2012
The Science of Language
Interviews with James McGilvray
2012
Yugoslavia
Peace, War, and Dissolution
2018
Interventions
2007
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
2013
Taming the Rascal Multitude
Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997-2014
2022
The Chomsky Trilogy
Secrets, Lies & Democracy/The Prosperous Few & the Restless Many/What Uncle Sam Really Wants
1995
Propaganda and the Public Mind
1998
Consequences of Capitalism
Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
2021
9-11
2001
Chomsky
1971
On Power and Ideology
The Managua Lectures
1999
Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
1993
Keeping the Rabble in Line
Interviews with David Barsamian
1994
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
2020
Vietnam Inc.
2001
A New World in Our Hearts
In Conversation with Michael Albert
2022
Barriers
1986
Turning the Tide
U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
1985
Imperial Ambitions
Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
2005
Because We Say So
2015
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
1994
On Language
1998
Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future
2023
What Kind of Creatures Are We?
2015
Gaza in Crisis
Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
2010
For a Free Humanity
For Anarchy
1997
Capital Rules For A Free Humanity
1997
On Nature and Language
1392
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
2017
Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
1996
The Chomsky Quartet
The Common Good/The Prosperous Few & the Restless Many/Secrets, Lies & Democracy/What Uncle Sam Really Wants
2002
The Architecture of Language
2000
Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture
1993
The New Military Humanism
Lessons from Kosovo
1999
