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.
Release Date: 1/1/1994
Runtime: 28 minutes
Languages: English
Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
00Companies: Necessary Illusions Productions Inc., ONF | NFB
Countries: Canada
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