Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences

This video focuses on the formative influences in Noam Chomsky's life--those factors which enable him to become a politically engaged intellectual. Starting out as a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his work revolutionized the study of language, Chomsky was radicalized by the 1960s anti-war movement and became a major critic of American policy. We learn about the important Jewish intellectual influences of his family, as well as those defining incidents in his early schooling that made a lasting impression.

Country:

Canada

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

28 minutes

Year:

1994

Director:

Mark Achbar

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Company:

Necessary Illusions Productions Inc.,

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Cast:

Himself

Crew:

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Producer

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