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Life and portrait of the American linguist and intellectual : Noam Chomsky

Noam was born in 1928 from a Jewish family

and grew up in Philadelphia, City of the Liberty Bell and Rocky Balboa

He is 10 years old in the 30s and sees the rise of fascism

he suffers from it and finds an escape by writing his first article about anti-Semitism

Books are his passion : he is a real bookworm

and developed a growing interest in anarchism

Not for the raw punk anarchism, but the one with authority and hierarchy

the syndicalist anarchism

Breaking with capitalism and regrouping workers in unions

He goes to university and teaches Hebrew to finance studies.

It's hard and he thinks at a time to drop everything and leave for the kibbutz

But he met the linguist Zellig Harris who gives him courage aand conviction

to focus on linguistic theory

He also begins a romantic relationship with Carol, a childhood friend who will become his future wife.

then joined the prestigious Harvard University and wrote a new theory on grammar the study of Language

the transformational grammar

It is a huge advance for linguistics, and will be published under the name of LSLT

His linguistic theories are the opposite of those of B. F. Skinner, follower of Pavlov's Dog theories.

Chomsky also introduces the concept of Language Acquisitiopn Device

He moves to Boston and joins the MIT where he can finally do research in a free way

And teach linguistics

He became better known as the "Father of Modern Linguistics"

He is famous for his participation to the linguistic war :

a great intellectual debate between him and his colleagues Paul Postal, Haj Ross, George Lakoff and James McCawley

nicknamed the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse

Then will take a stand against the Vietnam war

Richard Nxon sees this as an act of anti-Americanism and he is on the radar screen of the CIA

for his anti vietnam war stance

The President will even put him at rank number one on the public enemy list.

Red class and libertarian socialist, he will be arrested several times for activism

He urges the masses to think and get out of the sheep herd

Hate the mass media and their loads of lies

And “The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”

Armed with his pen, he writes and it fight against the powerful of this world

Where information will end up replacing the knowledge

Consider the pentagon a real threat to the human species.

Where we shouldn't be looking for heroes but rather for good ideas

And that it's high time to teach the child to understand our world


From his work as a thinker, he is now known as the Socrates of the United States

He publishes extensively on the subjects of societies, politics, anarchy, the media

and became the most cited scholar

Often questioned by journalists, he is the reference when seeking the opinion of an intellectual

Here, we have gone through the history of the father of modern linguistics, and if we step back a little

you can discover the portrait of Noam Chomsky!