Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language, Understanding Power (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Towards a New Cold War, The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), On Anarchism, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (with Michel Foucault), and The Withdrawal and On Cuba (both with Vijay Prashad), all published by The New Press. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Books by Noam Chomsky

American Power and the New Mandarins
Historical and Political Essays

Noam Chomsky

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
On Human Nature

Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault

The Cold War and the University
Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn

The Essential Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove

For Reasons of State

Noam Chomsky

On Anarchism

Noam Chomsky

On Cuba
Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle

Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad

On Language
Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language

Noam Chomsky

Towards a New Cold War
U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan

Noam Chomsky

Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel

The Withdrawal
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power

Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad