# The Responsibility of Intellectuals - Hardcover

by **Noam Chomsky** (Author)

-   **Chomsky is a rock star:** Bono called him the "Elvis of academia." Recently featured by the _NYT_ Education Life section (11/6/16), Chomsky is frequently in the news and has recently debunked critiques by the right-winger Tom Wolfe in _The Kingdom of Speech_ (Little, Brown) and by the anthropologist Chris Knight in _Decoding Chomsky_ (Yale).  
    
-   **Profile:** Chomsky has such a significant public profile that there is now Chomsky merch available, from mugs to T-shirts and luggage tags (!) to a ceramic garden gnome marketed as "Gnome Chomsky." He supported Bernie Sanders and predicted the rise of a candidate like Donald Trump long before Trump came on the scene.  
    
-   **Still speaking out:** Now 87, Chomsky continues to speak publicly and to publish books and opinion pieces. Asked how he accounts for his amazing energy levels, he credits the "bicycle theory" that "as long as you keep riding you don't fall."  
    
-   **Anniversary:** Although Chomsky will not explicitly promote this book, we will do our best to take advantage of the 50th anniversary of the original _NYRB_ essay and to tie it to our own 25th anniversary in 2017.  
    
-   **Consistent best-seller:** Chomsky is a best-selling author whose books have sold millions of copies.
    
    ### Author Biography
    
    **Noam Chomsky** is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, he is also a political dissident who has written more than one hundred books. His New Press books include _Understanding Power_, _On Anarchism_, and _The Essential Chomsky_. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    
    **Number of Pages:** 160
    
    **Dimensions:** 0.7 x 7 x 4.7 IN
    
    **Publication Date:** November 07, 2017

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