Noam Chomsky: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
General studies include James McGilvray, Chomsky: Language, Mind and Politics (1999); and Neil Smith, Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals (1999). Some useful anthologies on various aspects of Chomsky’s work are James McGilvray, The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky (2002); Carlos Otero, Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, 4 vol. (1994); and Gilbert Harman, On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays (1982). Milan Rai, Chomsky, Politics (1995), is the best overall summary of Chomsky’s political views. James Peck (ed.), The Chomsky Reader (1988), contains a good selection of Chomsky’s basic political works and an interview in which Chomsky discusses his career. Robert Barsky, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (1997), is an intellectual biography focusing on Chomsky’s politics.
Major Works
Linguistics
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), Cartesian Linguistics (1966), The Sound Pattern of English (with Morris Halle, 1968), Language and Mind (1968, enlarged ed. 1972), Reflections on Language (1975), Lectures on Government and Binding (1981), Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988), The Minimalist Program (1995).
Politics
American Power and the New Mandarins (1969), After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (with Edward S. Herman; 1979), Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward S. Herman; 1988, updated edition 2002), Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (1989, reissued 1991), Deterring Democracy (1991), Year 501: The Conquest Continues (1993), Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (2003), Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006).
Article Contributors
Primary Contributors
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Noam Chomsky. | Oct 31, 2026 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 14, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Philosopher's Zone - Noam Chomsky on the hard stuff. | Oct 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: InfiniteMIT - Noam Chomsky. | Sep 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CBC - Noam Chomsky on being watched. | Aug 01, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - The Interview Archive - Noam Chomsky. | Apr 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kyoto Prize - Avram Noam Chomsky. | May 27, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Noam Chomsky. | Nov 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Chomsky, Noam (1928�). | Dec 04, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: GoodTherapy - Biography of Noam Chomsky. | May 15, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Philosophers - Biography of Noam Chomsky. | Mar 21, 2021 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Noam Chomsky. | Mar 14, 2019 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Avram Noam Chomsky. | Jun 05, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllMusic - Noam Chomsky. | Dec 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Noam Chomsky. | Dec 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: European Graduate School - Biography of Noam Chomsky. | Apr 22, 2013 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 10, 2009 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and udpated. | Aug 14, 2009 | ||
| Added titles to Major Works section. | May 07, 2009 | ||
| New article added. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| New bibliography added. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| New Major Works list added. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |