Author:Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky
(1928–)

Noam Chomsky

Works

Books

Linguistics

• Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew. (1951) - Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
• Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1955)
• Transformational Analysis. (1955) Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
• "On accent and juncture in English." (1956), coauthors Morris Halle, and Fred Lukoff; published in For Roman Jakobson. The Hague: Mouton
• Syntactic Structures (1957). The Hague: Mouton. Reprint. Berlin and New York (1985).
• Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964).
• Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Cartesian Linguistics (1965). New York: Harper and Row. Reprint. Cartesian Linguistics. A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1986.
• Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar (1966).
• The Sound Pattern of English (1968). coauthor Morris Halle; New York: Harper & Row.
• Language and Mind (1968).
• Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar (1972).
• The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1975).
• Reflections on Language (1975).
• Essays on Form and Interpretation (1977).
• Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (1979).
• Rules and Representations (1980).
• Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures (1981). Holland: Foris Publications. Reprint. 7th Edition. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
• Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding (1982).
• Language and the Study of Mind (1982).
• Noam on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk (1982).
• Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind (1984).
• Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1986).
• Barriers. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Thirteen (1986). Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
• Language and Thought (1993).
• The Minimalist Program (1995). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• On Language (1998).
• New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (2000).
• The Architecture of Language (2000) (Mukherji, et al, eds.).
• On Nature and Language (2001) (Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi, ed.).
• "The Chomsky-Place correspondence 1993–1994" (2000). coauthors N. & Place, U.T.; Edited, with an introduction and suggested readings, by T. Schoneberger. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 17, 7–38.

Computer science

• Three models for the description of language. (1956) I.R.E. Transactions on Information Theory, vol. IT-2, no. 3: 113–124.

Politics

• The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)
• American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)
• "Notes on Anarchism", New York Review of Books (1970)
• At war with Asia (1970)
• Two Essays on Cambodia (1970)
• Chomsky: selected readings (1971)
• Problems of Knowledge and Freedom (1971)
• For Reasons of State (1973)
• Counter-Revolutionary Violence - Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda (with Edward S. Herman) (1973)
• Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood (1974)
• Intellectuals and the State (1976)
• Human Rights and American Foreign Policy (1978)
• Language and Responsibility (1979)
• The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Edward Herman) (1979)
• The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (with Edward Herman) (1979)
• Radical Priorities (1981)
• Superpowers in collision: the cold war now (1982)
• Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There (1982)
• The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (1983)
• Turning the Tide : U.S. intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace (1985)
• Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World (1986)
• The Race to Destruction: Its Rational Basis (1986)
• The Reader (1987)
• On Power and Ideology (1987)
• Turning the Tide: the U.S. and Latin America (1987)
• The Culture of Terrorism (1988)
• Language and Politics (1988)
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward Herman) (1988)
• Necessary Illusions (1989)
• Terrorizing the Neighborhood (1991)
• What Uncle Sam Really Wants (1992)
• Chronicles of Dissent (1992)
• Deterring Democracy (1992)
• Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda (1993)
• The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993)
• Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture (1993)
• World Order and Its Rules: Variations on Some Themes (1993)
• Year 501: The Conquest Continues (1993)
• Keeping the rabble in Line (1994)
• Secrets, Lies, and Democracy (1994)
• World Orders, Old and New (1994)
• Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order (1996)
• Class Warfare (1996)
• One Chapter, The Cold War and the University (1997)
• Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (1997)
• The Common Good (1998)
• The Umbrella of US Power (1999)
• Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization (1999)
• Acts of Aggression: Policing "Rogue" States (with Edward W. Said) (1999)
• The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo (1999)
• Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order (1999)
• The Fateful Triangle (updated edition) (1999)
• on Mis-Education (edited by Donaldo Macedo) (2000)
• A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West (2000)
• Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (2000)
• Propaganda and the Public Mind (2001)
• 9-11 (2001)
• Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (2002)
• on Democracy and Education (edited by C.P. Otero) (2002)
• Media Control (Second Edition) (2002)
• Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World (2002)
• Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews (2003)
• Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood (2003)
• Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (2003)
• Znet article, Deep Concerns http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3293 (2003)
• Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup (with Paul Farmer and Amy Goodman) (2004)
• on Anarchism (edited by Barry Pateman) (2005)
• Government in the future (2005) ISBN 1583226850. Text of the lecture given at the Poetry Center, New York, February 16, 1970.
• Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (2005)
• The Impetious Imperialist (2005)
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006)
• Perilous Power. The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice (with Gilbert Achcar) (2006)
• Interventions (2007)
• What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World (2007)
• New World of Indigenous Resistance (2010)
• Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (2010)
• Hopes and Prospects (2010)
• How the World Works (2011)
• Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (2012)
• Occupy (2012)
• The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray (2012)
• Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire (2013)
• Who Rules the World? (2014)
• On Palestine (2015)
• Because We Say So (2015)
• What Kind of Creatures Are We? (2015)
• Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change (2017)
• Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy (2017)
• Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (2017)
• Internationalism Or Extinction (2019)
• Chomsky for Activists (2020)
• The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (2020)
• Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance (2021)
• The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change (2021)
• A New World in Our Hearts: In Conversation with Michael Albert (2022)
• Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997–2014 (2022)

Speeches

see Wikiquote for online sources

• "Government in the Future", Poetry Center of the New York YM-YWHA, February 16, 1970
• Talk at UC Berkeley on the massacres in Indonesia and East Timor, 1982
• Middle East Policy UC Berkeley, May 14, 1984
• U.S. foreign policy in Central America, UC Berkeley, May 14, 1984
• "The Lessons of Vietnam", March 31, 1985
• "American Foreign Policy" , Harvard University, March 19, 1985
• "Necessary Illusions" at MIT, May 10, 1989
• Talk at St. Michael's College, Vermont, around 1990
• "Education and Democracy", Michigan State University, March 28, 1995
• "Free Market Fantasies", Harvard University, April 13, 1996
• "Language & Mind", 1997
• Middle East Policy (April 4, 1999)
• "Sovereignty and World Order", Kansas State University, September 20, 1999
• Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 2, 2000
• "U.S. Foreign Policy in a Globalized World" at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland], March 13, 2000
• "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" at the University of Toledo, Ohio, March 4, 2001
• "The New War Against Terror" at MIT, October 18, 2001
• "The World After September 11th", AFSC Conference at Tufts University, Massachusetts, December 8, 2001
• "Distorted Morality", Harvard University, February 2002
• "On West Asia" at UC Berkeley, March 21, 2002
• Talk at the University of Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002
• "Why Iraq?" at Harvard University, November 4, 2002
• KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003
• Talk at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York. November 16, 2004
• "The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights", MIT, March 15, 2005
• Talk at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, March 22, 2005
• "Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times" at the University of Washington, April 20, 2005
• Talk at the Englert Theatre in Iowa, April 10, 2006
• "The Current Crisis in the Middle East" at MIT, September 21, 2006

Bibliographies

• Chomsky's MIT homepage