Noam Chomsky
American linguist and political activist who revolutionized linguistics by proposing that language is a biological capacity with an innate grammatical structure. Manufacturing Consent, co-written with Edward Herman, is the most influential analysis of how mass media serve elite interests. He is the most cited living academic.
Works
- Manufacturing ConsentCorporate media manufactures consent through structural propaganda and elite control
- Syntactic StructuresLinguistic theory of generative grammar as innate universal cognitive capacity
- American Power and the New MandarinsAmerican foreign policy, military interventionism, and resistance to imperial aggression
- Hegemony or SurvivalAmerican imperial power threatens survival; alternatives to domination exist
- Understanding PowerInterviews revealing Chomsky's analysis of power, politics, and social transformation