The Essential Chomsky

The seminal writings of America’s leading philosopher, linguist, and political thinker—“the foremost gadfly of our national conscience” ( The New York Times ).   For the past fifty years Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual as well as one of the most original political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, Chomsky has also secured a place among the most influe