Noam Chomsky Books In Order
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Syntactic Structures | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cartesian Linguistics | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Knowledge of Language | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
American Power and the New Mandarins | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Language and Mind | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
At War With Asia | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
For Reasons of State | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Reflections on Language | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Language and Responsibility | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Sound Pattern of English | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rules and Representations | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Radical Priorities | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lectures on Government & Binding | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Toward a New Cold War | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Fateful Triangle | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Turning the Tide | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Barriers | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Language and Problems of Knowledge | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Chomsky Reader | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Culture of Terrorism | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Language and Politics | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Necessary Illusions | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Modular Approaches Study Mind | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Deterring Democracy | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Terrorizing the Neighborhood | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
What Uncle Sam Really Wants | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Year 501: The Conquest Continues | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
TheProsperous Few and the Restless Many | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
World Orders, Old and New | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Keeping the Rabble in Line | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Secrets, Lies and Democracy | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Minimalist Program | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Class Warfare | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Prospects for Democracy | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Common Good | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Powers and Prospects | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
For a Free Humanity: For Anarchy | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Perspectives on Power | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On Language | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Propaganda and the Public Mind | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Profit Over People | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On Power and Ideology | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The New Military Humanism | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rogue States | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Acts of Aggression: Policing Rogue States | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On MisEducation | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Architecture of Language | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A New Generation Draws the Line | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
An American Addiction | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
9-11 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Monkeywrenching the New World Order | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On Democracy & Education | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Masters of Mankind | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Generative Enterprise Revisited | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Getting Haiti Right This Time | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On Anarchism | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Doctrines and Visions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Imperial Presidency | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Perilous Power | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Targeting Iran | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Essential Chomsky | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Chomsky On Anarchism | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
New World of Indigenous Resistance | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Gaza in Crisis | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Iraq: The Forever War | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hopes and Prospects | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Mafia Principle of Global Hegemony | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
How the World Works | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Occupy | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Chomsky's Linguistics | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Demand the Impossible | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On Western Terrorism | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
On Palestine | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Because We Say So | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
What Kind of Creatures Are We? | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Prophetic Voices on Middle East Peace | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Optimism over Despair | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Consequences of Capitalism | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Why Ideas Matter | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Secrets of Words | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Withdrawal | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Notes on Resistance | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Myth of American Idealism | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Open Media Books
Government in the Future | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Umbrella of US Power | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Microradio & Democracy | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Weapons in Space | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Open Media Collection | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
After the Cataclysm | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Interventions | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Between Barack and a Hard Place | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Colorblind | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Bomb | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Crossing Zero | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
To Die in Mexico | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dear White America | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Redefining Black Power | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Making the Future | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Crusade 2.0 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Occupy the Economy | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Meaning of Freedom | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Black History of the White House | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dying to Live | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Border Patrol Nation | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Violence of Organized Forgetting | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Disposable Futures | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Writing on the Wall | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Because We Say So | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Under the Affluence | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
America at War with Itself | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Breaking Through Power | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Storming the Wall | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Loaded | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
American Nightmare | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
United States of Distraction | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Torn from the World | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Violence | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Death Blossoms | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
No Fascist USA! | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Green New Deal and Beyond | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
ReTargeting Iran | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dispatches from the Race War | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Build Bridges, Not Walls | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rising Up | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Women Who Change the World | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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About Noam Chomsky
As a public intellectual, linguist, and thinker, Noam Chomsky is an American writer who, for many, needs no introduction. Making a name for himself with his ever incisive and in-depth analysis, he understands what drives people, as he’s known to readers worldwide. Whether his audience agree with him or not, he’s a respected figure by many, as his reputation precedes him, speaking his mind on a wide range of different issues. Known far and wide for his incisive and profound analysis, he always makes an impact with his perspective and insight.
A key figure of left-wing thought, he’s often seen as a staunch critic of western hegemony and capitalism through his work and writing. Making his ideas clear and accessible, he immediately gets to the point, whether it’s in broadcasting or in print, never afraid to shy away from certain topics. Over time this has afforded him following globally, as audiences, regardless of their political leanings, have come to respect what he has to say. Speaking to wide-range of different figures, he’s always willing to communicate his ideas as well, regardless of who he’s speaking to.
During the course of his writing career all of this has led to him writing a number of different books, many of which continue to stand the test of time. For some he talks about the media, others he talks about the economy, but one thing’s for sure is that he always has something different to say. His work always has a real sense of power to it as well, as he’s an articulate an intelligent thinker who talks with confidence. With a legacy that will continue to live on, he continues to write, with more to follow still, as he isn’t stopping any time soon.
Early and Personal Life
Born in 1928 on the 7th of December, Avram Noam Chomsky was born in East Oak Lane in Philadelphia, in the United States. His parents were Jewish immigrants, with his mother being Elsie Simonofsky, and his father Ze’ev ‘William’ Chomsky, a Hebrew scholar. With a background in academia, he would pursue this field himself, while being close with his brother, the cardiologist David Eli Chomsky.
Attending Deweyite Oak Lane Country Day School, he would go on to graduate from Central High School in Philadelphia. Exposed to Socialism along with far-left politics through the International Garment Worker’s Union, and he would debate current affairs at the New York City newspaper stand after being influenced by his uncle and other Jewish leftists. As a key figure in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements, he continues to write regularly, and he was married to his wife Carol Doris Chomsky until her passing in 2008.
Writing Career
Perhaps one of the best know texts that Noam Chomsky would write was ‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.’ Writing this alongside Edward S. Herman, this would come to be one of the most formative texts on how mass-media influences society as a whole, with a documentary being made from it in 1992. Other books would see him write about ideologies and western imperialism, really laying bare what his ideas on the world, such as as 2010s book ‘Chomsky On Anarchism.’
He’d also write a few series of books too, including the ‘American Empire Project,’ which would seek to take a closer look at the American empire as a whole. Often writing alongside other writers as well, he would shy away from writing about difficult subject matter such as Palestine either, with his 2015 book ‘On Palestine.’ Winning awards for his work, he’s gone on to become one of the key political dissenters, revered by many worldwide, as his audience grows day-by-day.
Who Rules The World
Originally published in 2014, this would first come out on the 1st of January to much acclaim, with it being a part of the ‘American Empire Project Series’ of books. The books themselves are all non-fiction, looking at different aspects of American society and how they function in a modern era. It’s a must not only for fans of the author, but for those looking to find out more on the subject as a whole in the long-run.
Still setting the terms of global discourse, despite the rise of the Asian and European continents, America continues to maintain its grip on global politics. Using a wide-range of different examples, Chomsky seeks to break this down, looking at the US involvement in Iran and Cuba, and how they’ve continued to maintain their grip. Analyzing Iraq and Afghanistan as well, he leaves no stone unturned, making sure to cover every single base when it comes to looking at America’s hegemony. The book also has an afterword on the election of Donald Trump, looking at everything that led to that point in history and why it happened.
One of Chomsky’s later works, this manages to capture everything about where American society is at, and where it’s heading. Providing lots of intensive data on the subject matter, he doesn’t hold back, really offering a unique insight into an area of American politics that’s otherwise left undisturbed. Making it accessible too, his work doesn’t get bogged down by academia, allowing anyone and everyone to essentially read it.
Media Control
First brought out in 1995, this would be a shorter non-fiction book from Noam Chomsky, with an audiobook version of it as well. Not a part of any series, it would be an easy to read introduction to leftist analysis of media propaganda, and how it is utilized. Published through the ‘Seven Stories Press’ publishing imprint, it would be a fast and easy read, making it ideal for anyone looking to learn more on the subject matter.
Looking back to wartime propaganda, Chomsky takes a deep dive into what really drives the American, and the global, public when it comes to the media. Speaking of propaganda as ‘a tool’ for bludgeoning the people, it seeks to rectify this, as media leads society into what is otherwise a totalitarian state. Studying the war-mongering mentality of the media, it shines a light on why those in power do this, and how they use the media to project their message. From Bush Sr.’s ill-fated war in Iraq, to satiating the blood-lust of an otherwise pacifist nation, it illuminates what Lippman calls ‘spectator democracy.’
This book would follow on from the ‘Manufacturing Consent’ as almost a footnote, but it was no less important in terms of its scope and scale. With Chomsky fully at the helm this time round, he goes about giving a full run-down of how propaganda has driven all American politics. Just as relevant today as it ever was, this book has a lot to say on where society is going, and what’s in store for the media, making this a key introductory text of anyone interested in the works of Chomsky.
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