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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Chomsky, Noam, 1928-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967, 1973

Volume: 6 item(s); 8 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Chomsky, Noam".

Biography

Noam Chomsky, best known for his landmark influence on linguistics, has also been a stern critic of political empiricism and a voice of the political left in the United States. He was a stalwart critic of the war in Vietnam and attempts to get Merton's support of "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority". (Source: "Chomsky, Avram Noam" The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Simon Blackburn. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Bellarmine University. 28 July 2004 ‹http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t98.e397›).

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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/08/15 TL[c]from MertonHerbert Mason of Harvard has sent along to me the mimeographed statement on resisting illegitimate  "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" signed by Noam Chomsky and others - Merton's response / asking for Chomsky's "Duty of Intellectuals" from the <u>New York Review</u> for an essay on "the destruction of language by war" / sending some of his articles related to Chomsky's interest
 1967/09/06 TLSto MertonThank you very much for your letter, and your comments about the statement on draft resistance.  asks Merton to sign "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" / sending copies of statement and letter / sending a copy of the requested essay, which is also to appear in essays put together by Theodore Roszak, entitled <i>The Dissenting Academy</i>
 1967/09/06 (#01)otherto MertonA CALL TO RESIST ILLEGITIMATE AUTHORITY [-] To the young men of America,  statement of the "unconstitutional and illegal" war in Vietnam morally offensive - draft exemptions denied to those having religious objections to the war - "right and moral duty to exert every effort to end this war" / drafted by the organization Resist from New York City
 1967/09/06 (#02)otherto MertonThe time has come to resist the war in Vietnam. The enclosed statement, "A Call to Resist  letter inviting others to sign "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority", to ask others to sign and to resist the war in Vietnam - front of letter (photocopy) signed by Noam Chomsky, Dwight Macdonald, William S. Cofin, Jr. and Benjamin Spock - includes a printed list of other signers of the statement on second page
 1973/11/30 TLS[x]from Center to Chomsky, NoamMr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your   
 1973/12/06 TLSto Center from Chomsky, NoamThank you very much for contacting me about the correspondence with Thomas Merton.  permission and conditions to use his correspondence with Merton
        

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