Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences

Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences — Plot

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
• January 1, 1994
• Runtime
• 28 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Peter Wintonick

Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences — Cast

Noam Chomsky Himself