One of the most cited scholars alive, Chomsky has influenced a broad array of academic fields. Chomsky began teaching at the University of Arizona in 2017. 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. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's Enemies List. 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'. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955.

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.īorn to Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Sometimes called 'the father of modern linguistics', Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.

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