Noam Chomsky

A Life of Dissent

By: Robert F Barsky

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Paperback | 31 July 1998

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This biography describes the intellectual and political environments that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. In describing these formative individuals and milieus, the book also presents an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentagon. The book highlights Chomsky's views on the uses and misuses of the university as an institution, his assessment of useful political engagement, and his doubts about postmodernism. Because Chomsky is given ample space to articulate his views on many of the major issues relating to his work, both linguistic and political, this book can also be seen as the autobiography that Chomsky says he will never write. Barsky's account reveals the remarkable consistency in Chomsky's interests and principles over the course of his life. The book contains well-placed excerpts from Chomsky's published writings and unpublished correspondence, including the author's own long correspondence with Chomsky. "* Not for sale in Canada"

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"... a remarkably comprehensive biography... Barsky makes Chomsky the person more visible than ever before." Michael G. Wessells , Contemporary Psychology "[A] detailed and perceptive survey of Chomsky's life and work." Raphael Salkie , Times Higher Education Supplement "For over thirty years Noam Chomsky has been a pathbreaking linguist and a controversial critic of American policies and politics. Indeed, the world seems to divide between those who revere and those who revile Chomsky. Both groups would find valuable Robert F. Barsky's appreciative biography; he recounts (the known and the little known) facts of Chomsky's life, evaluates his linguistic contribution and surveys the main quarrels. This is an essential book not only for Chomsky affecionados and adversaries, but for all students of American political and intellectual life." Russell Jacoby, UCLA

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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
The Milieu That Formed Chomsky
Introduction
Family, Hebrew School, Grade School
The Chomsky Household
The Extended Family
Elementary School: Exploration and Creation
First Steps toward Libertarianism
Informal Education
Central High School
A "Literary Political Salon"
Orwell and the Anarchist Position
Detective Chomsky
Chomsky and Bertrand Russell
The Circle Broadens
Chomsky and Pannekoek
Chomsky and the Marlenites
Zellig Harris, Avukah, and Hashomer Hatzair
Undergraduate Years
Zellig Sabbetai Harris
Graduate School
Beyond Contemporary Linguistics
The Anxiety of Influence
"Keeping to Politics": A Relationship Evolves
"A Very Powerful Personality"
Avukah
Avukah's Goals
Avukah's Program
Avukah's Call to Action
Chomsky and Arthur Rosenberg
Chomsky and Montreal
Zellig Harris and The People
Chomsky, Seymour Melman, and the Council for Arab-Jewish Cooperation
Chomsky and the League for Arab-Jewish Rapprochement
Chomsky and Hashomer Hatzair
Chomsky's "Anti-Zionism," Then and Now
A Place of His Own
The Chomskys in Israel
Dr. Noam Chomsky
Wherefore Zellig Harris?
Chomsky Arrives at MIT
The Birth of Cognitive Science and the Publication of Syntactic Structures
"An Assault on the Bastions"
Humboldt and the Cartesian Tradition
Fundamental Values and Theories
Antibehaviorism
An Early Leitmotif
The Founding of MIT's Graduate Program in Linguistics
Chomsky's "Classic Period"
Cartesian Linguistics
An Emphasis on Human Creativity
Chomsky and Humboldt
Politics and the Cartesians
Cartesian Common Sense
The Milieu Chomsky Helped To Create
The Intellectual, the University, and the State
"Soldier, Scholar, Horseman He... "
In Demand
The Responsible Intellectual
"Deeper and Deeper"
Marching with the Armies of the Night
Arrested, Questioned, and Charged
Chomsky and the '68ers
Public Intellectuals and Radicalism
Chomsky and Irving Howe
The Example of Peggy Duff
Serendipity and Self-Justification
Chomsky the "Muckraker"
Linguistic Wars
A Modern-Day Soothsayer
Plato's Problem, Orwell's Problem, and Life in the Spotlight
Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Censorship
The Intellectual as Commissar
The Function of the Academic
Provoking Ire
Language Acquisition in the Animal World
Slinging the Mud: An "Elementary Moral Principle"
The Faurisson Affair
The Pol Pot Affair
Chomsky as Teacher
The Postmodern Era
Chomsky on the French Intellectual Tradition
CONCLUSION
Pushing the Limits of Understanding
Art and Literature: An Undefinable Influence
Fighting for Control
A Last Look
Afterword
Notes
Works Consulted
Index
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Noam Chomsky

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