There are countless Chomsky courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (2002)
- Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (2017)
- Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change (2017)
- On Anarchism (2013)
- On Language: Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume (1998)
- Syntactic Structures (2015)
- Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (2002)
- The Essential Chomsky (New Press Essential) (2008)
- On Palestine (2015)
- Global Discontents (American Empire Project) (2017)
- Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order (1998)
- Quién domina el mundo?/ Who Rules the World? (Spanish Edition) (2017)
- Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series) (2002)
- Chomsky For Beginners (2007)
- A History of the Cuban Revolution (Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista) (2015)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (2002)
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S.
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (2017)
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today?
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change (2017)
This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive.”In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J.
On Anarchism (2013)
On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky’s fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky’s anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian.
On Language: Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume (1998)
Described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics.
Syntactic Structures (2015)
2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. American linguist Paul Postal wrote in 1964 that most of the “syntactic conceptions prevalent in the United States” were “versions of the theory of phrase structure grammars in the sense of Chomsky”.
Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (2002)
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky’s recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.
The Essential Chomsky (New Press Essential) (2008)
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time.
On Palestine (2015)
Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater.
Global Discontents (American Empire Project) (2017)
In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider “the world we are leaving to our grandchildren”: one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war.
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order (1998)
Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated?
Quién domina el mundo?/ Who Rules the World? (Spanish Edition) (2017)
Chomsky argumenta que Estados Unidos, por medio de sus políticas predominantemente militaristas y su ilimitada devoción por mantener un imperio de escala mundial, está arriesgándose a una catástrofe que destrozaría los bienes comunes del planeta.
Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series) (2002)
Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, “propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,” and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
Chomsky For Beginners (2007)
Noam Chomsky has written some 30 books, he is one of the most-quoted authors on Earth, The New York Times calls him “arguably the most important intellectual alive” – yet most people have no idea who he is or what he’s about.Chomsky For Beginners tells you what he’s about: Chomsky is known for his work in two distinct areas – Linguistics and
A History of the Cuban Revolution (Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista) (2015)
A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. #686,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #218 in History of Cuba (Books) #476 in Latin American History (Books) #27438 in World History (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Best Chomsky Books Worth Your Attention
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Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice
Author(s): Aviva Chomsky
ID: 3248059, Publisher: Beacon Press, Year: 2022, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
A New World in Our Hearts: In Conversation with Michael Albert
Author(s): Noam Chomsky
ID: 3255571, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
Author(s): Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad
ID: 3364727, Publisher: The New Press, Year: 2022, Size: 847 Kb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly best-sellers according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.