Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences (1994)

• Documentary

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.

Rating

7 / 10 (1 votes)

Release date

January 1, 1994

Runtime

28m

Language

English

Director

Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick

Status

Released