Noam Chomsky


About

Also Known As
Avram Noam Chomsky
Birth Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Born
December 07, 1928

Biography

Life Events

1951

Wrote Master's thesis Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew at University of Pennsylvania

1955

Joined MIT staff

1957

Revolutionized field of linguistics with Syntactic Structures

1961

Appointed full professor at MIT's Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

1967

Wrote anti-Vietnam War essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," published in The New York Review of Books

1969

Published first political book American Power and the New Mandarins

1976

Appointed Institute Professor at MIT

1988

Presented "propaganda model" of news media in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, co-written with Edward S. Herman

1992

Featured in documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media"

2003

Appeared in historical documentary series "XXI Century"

2003

Subject of documentary "Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause"

2004

Animated short "Pirates and Emperors (or Size Does Matter)" adapted from 1986 book Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism and the Real World

2006

Wrote and appeared in documentary film "Imperial Grand Strategy"

2012

Featured in global financial crisis documentary "Four Horsemen"

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