Books & Book Excerpts
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· Syntactic Structures, London: Mouton, 1957.

· Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, The Hague: Mouton, 1964.

· Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1965.

· Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought, New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

· Language and Mind, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

· The Sound Pattern of English (with Morris Halle), New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

· American Power and the New Mandarins, New York: Pantheon Books, 1969.

· At War With Asia, New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.

· Two Essays on Cambodia, Nottingham: Spokesman Books, 1970.

· Chomsky: Selected Readings (edited by J. P. B. Allen and Paul Van Buren), London: Oxford University Press, 1971.

· Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.

· Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar, The Hague: Mouton, 1972.

· Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar, Paris: Mouton, 1972.

· For Reasons of State, New York: Pantheon Books, 1973.

· Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood, New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

· The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, New York: Plenum Press, 1975.

· Reflections on Language, New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.

· Essays on Form and Interpretation, New York: North-Holland, 1977.

· “Human Rights” and American Foreign Policy, Nottingham: Spokesman Books, 1978.

· Language and Responsibility: Based on Conversations with Mitson Ronat (translated from the French by John Viertel), New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.

· Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew, New York: Garland, 1979.

· After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Construction of Imperial Ideology (with Edward Herman), Boston: South End Press, 1979.

· The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Edward Herman), Boston: South End Press, 1979.

· Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky (edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.

· Rules and Representations, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

· Radical Priorities (edited by Carlos P. Otero), Montréal: Black Rose Books. 1981.

· Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures, Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications, 1982.

· Noam Chomsky on the Generative Enterprise: A Discussion with Riny Huybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk, Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications, 1982.

· Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1982.

· Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There, New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.

· Language and the Study of Mind, Tokyo: Sansyusya Publishing, 1982.

· The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, New York: South End Press, 1983.

· Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind, San Diego: California State University Press, 1984.

· Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace, Boston: South End Press, 1985.

· Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World, New York: Claremont Research & Publications, 1986.

· Barriers, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1986.

· Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use, New York: Praeger, 1986.

· Language in a Psychological Setting, Tokyo: Sophia University, 1987.

· The Chomsky Reader (edited by James Peck), New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.

· On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures, Boston: South End Press, New York: Black Rose Books, 1987.

· Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1988.

· Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward Herman), New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.

· The Culture of Terrorism, London: Pluto Press, Boston: South End Press, 1988.

· Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Boston: South End Press, 1989.

· Terrorizing the Neighborhood: American Foreign Policy in the post-Cold War Era, Stirling, Scotland: AK Press, San Francisco: Pressure Drop Press, 1991.

· Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian, Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1992.

· What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1992.

· Deterring Democracy, London: Verso, 1991.

· Language and Thought, Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1993.

· Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture, Boston: South End Press, 1993.

· The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (with David Barsamian), Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1993.

· Discurs Politic: Tres Converencies a Catalunya, Barcelona: Editorial Empuries, 1993.

· Year 501: The Conquest Continues, Boston: South End Press, 1993.

· Secrets, Lies and Democracy, Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1994.

· World Orders, Old and New, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

· Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian, Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994.

· Sprache als Organ, Sprache als Lebensform: Anhang, Interview mit Noam Chomsky Über Linguistik und Politik (with Günther Grewendorf), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1995.

· The Minimalist Program, Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1995.

· Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian, Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1996.

· Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order, Boston: South End Press, 1996.

· Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1997.

· Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997.

· Language and Politics (edited by Carlos P. Otero), Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1998.

· Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999.

· The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1999.

· The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy, New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999.

· The Architecture of Language (edited by Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik, Rama Kant Agnihotri), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

· A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West, London: Verso, 2000.

· Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.

· New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

· 9-11, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.

· Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky (with David Barsamian), Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001.

· Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World (updated edition), London: Pluto, 2002.

· Peering into the Abyss of the Future, New Delhi: Institute of Social Sciences, 2002.

· On Nature and Language, with an essay on “The secular priesthood and the perils of democracy” (edited by Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

· Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), New York: The New Press, 2002.

· The Common Good, Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 2002.

· Bush y los años del miedo: Conversaciones con Jorge Halperín, Buenos Aires: Capital Intelectual, 2003.

· Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, New York: The New Press, York: Signature Books Services, 2003.

· Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.

· Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews (edited by John Junkerman and Takei Masakazu), New York: Seven Stories Press, Tokyo: Little More, 2003.

· Middle East Illusions (including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

· Chomsky on Democracy and Education (edited by Carlos P. Otero), New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

· The Generative Enterprise Revisited: Discussions with Riny Huybregts, Henk van Riemsdijk, Naoki Fukui, and Mihoko Zushi, with a new foreword by Noam Chomsky, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

· Chomsky on Anarchism (edited by Barry Pateman), Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2005.

· Rules and Representations, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

· Government in the Future, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.

· The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature (with Michel Foucault), New York: The New Press, distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.

· Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2006.

· What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World: Interviews with David Barsamian, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.

· Interventions, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2007.

· The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), New York: The New Press, 2008.

· Of Minds and Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country (edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Juan Uriagereka, and Pello Salaburu), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

· Hopes and Prospects, Chicago: Haymarket Books, forthcoming November 2009.



[Book excerpts]

·  The Resort to Force. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2004.

·  Priorities and Prospects. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.

·  Cuba in the Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century of Terror. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.

·  Afterword. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.

·  Footnotes. Excerpted from Hegemony or Survival. 2003.

·  Selections. Excerpted from Media Control. 2002.

·  The Journalist from Mars. Excerpted from Media Control. 2002.

·  Quotations. Excerpted from Media Control. 2002.

·  The Fate of an Honest Intellectual. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.

·  An Exchange on Manufacturing Consent. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.

·  Footnotes. Excerpted from Understanding Power. 2002.

·  Selections. Excerpted from 9-11. 2001.

·  The 'Chomskyan Era'. Excerpted from The Architecture of Language. 2000.

·  US to World: Get Out of the Way. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  Rogues Gallery; Rogue States; Crisis in the Balkans. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  East Timor Retrospective. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  Cuba and U.S. Government. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  Putting on the Pressure: Latin America. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  "Recovering Rights" - A Crooked Path. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  The Legacy of War. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  Socioeconomic Sovereignty. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  Plan Colombia. Excerpted from Rogue States. 2000.

·  War is Peace. Excerpted from Fateful Triangle. 1999.

·  "Stability". Excerpted from Fateful Triangle. 1999.

·  Lessons from Kosovo. Excerpted from The New Military Humanism. 1999.

·  Selections. Excerpted from The Common Good. 1998.

·  Selections. Excerpted from Powers and Prospects. 1996.

·  Robert McNamara. Excerpted from Class Warfare. 1995.

·  Education is Ignorance. Excerpted from Class Warfare. 1995.

·  Looking for the Magic Answer? Excerpted from Class Warfare. 1995.

·  Israel, the Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism. Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent. 1992.

·  Pearl Harbor. Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent. 1992.

·  Selections. Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent. 1992.

·  Personal Influences. Excerpted from The Chomsky Reader. 1983.

·  What the World is Really Like: Who Knows It -- and Why. Excerpted from The Chomsky Reader. 1983.

·  Leninism & State Captialism. Excerpted from Towards a New Cold War. 1982.

·  The Carter Administration. Excerpted from Radical Priorities. 1981.

·  Watergate. Excerpted from Radical Priorities. 1981.

·  Introduction. Excerpted from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1979.

·  The Dominican Republic. Excerpted from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1979.

·  The Nazi Parallel. Excerpted from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1979.

·  Selections. Excerpted from After the Cataclysm. 1979.

·  Triumphs of Democracy. Excerpted from Language and Responsibility. 1977.

·  Empiricism and Rationalism. Excerpted from Language and Responsibility. 1977.

·  Notes on Anarchism. In For Reasons of State. 1970.

·  Language and Freedom. In For Reasons of State. 1970.

·  Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Mind. Excerpted from Language and Mind. 1968.
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