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Avram Noam Chomsky [a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [b] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism. Hamans, Camiel; Seuren, Pieter A. M. (2010). "Chomsky in search of a pedigree". In Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.). Chomskyan (R)evolutions. John Benjamins. pp.377–394. ISBN 978-9027211699. Archived from the original on November 28, 2021 . Retrieved December 23, 2020.

Flint, Anthony (November 19, 1995). "Divided Legacy". The Boston Globe. p.25. ISSN 0743-1791. ProQuest 290754647. Tomasello, Michael (2003). Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01030-7.How The World Works is a brilliant read on geopolitics. It’s unapologetic, direct, and eye-opening. This is actually a collection of 4 abridged books written by Chomsky; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; The Common Good; What Uncle Sam Really Wants, and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many – delivered in big sets of interviews. Bauerlein, Mark (April 1, 2005). "Deconstructing Chomsky". Reason.com. Archived from the original on April 27, 2023 . Retrieved May 13, 2023. Baroni, M.; Callegari, L., eds. (1982). Musical grammars and computer analysis. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore. pp.201–218. ISBN 978-882223229-8. Graham, George (2019). "Behaviorism". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021 . Retrieved July 19, 2019.

Koerner, E. F. K. (1983). "The Chomskyan 'revolution' and its historiography: a few critical remarks". Language & Communication. 3 (2): 147–169. doi: 10.1016/0271-5309(83)90012-5. The famous essay, even 50 years later, still perfectly encapsulates Chomsky’s main philosophy – that it is an intellectual’s responsibility to “expose the lies of government, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.” Chomsky is among the most cited authors living or dead. [h] He was cited within the Arts and Humanities Citation Index more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. [285] Chomsky was also extensively cited in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index during the same period. The librarian who conducted the research said that the statistics show that "he is very widely read across disciplines and that his work is used by researchers across disciplines ... it seems that you can't write a paper without citing Noam Chomsky." [264] As a result of his influence, there are dueling camps of Chomskyan and non-Chomskyan linguistics. Their disputes are often acrimonious. [286] Additionally, according to journalist Maya Jaggi, Chomsky is among the most quoted sources in the humanities, ranking alongside Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible. [260] In politics Hjelmslev, Louis (1969) [First published 1943]. Prolegomena to a Theory of Language. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299024709. An outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay " The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's list of political opponents. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the Cambodian genocide also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement. Chomsky began teaching at the University of Arizona in 2017.Chomsky's] voice is heard in academia beyond linguistics and philosophy: from computer science to neuroscience, from anthropology to education, mathematics and literary criticism. If we include Chomsky's political activism then the boundaries become quite blurred, and it comes as no surprise that Chomsky is increasingly seen as enemy number one by those who inhabit that wide sphere of reactionary discourse and action.