Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is the most prominent and profoundly influential intellectual in America, if not the world. It may be a dubious commendation, but Bono from U2 has called Chomsky the “Elvis of academia,” which isn’t too far from the truth. An Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky first gained international recognition in the 1950s as a cognitive scientist. He revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, by taking the very sentences we speak, snatching them in midair, and using them as a line, a rope, to climb into the very mechanisms within the human mind that allow for syntax; by arguing that human beings possess an innate, universal grammar, he set off a theoretical bomb that not only transformed the study of... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Genre:
- Spoken Word, Cultural Commentary
- Birthdate:
- 12/07/1928
