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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Chomsky, Noam".
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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/08/15 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Herbert Mason of Harvard has sent along to me the mimeographed statement on resisting illegitimate |
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"A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" signed by Noam Chomsky and others - Merton's response / asking for Chomsky's "Duty of Intellectuals" from the New York Review for an essay on "the destruction of language by war" / sending some of his articles related to Chomsky's interest
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1967/09/06 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you very much for your letter, and your comments about the statement on draft resistance. |
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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 The Dissenting Academy
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1967/09/06 (#01) |
other to Merton |
A CALL TO RESIST ILLEGITIMATE AUTHORITY [-] To the young men of America, |
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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
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1967/09/06 (#02) |
other to Merton |
The time has come to resist the war in Vietnam. The enclosed statement, "A Call to Resist |
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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
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1973/11/30 |
TLS[x] from Center to Chomsky, Noam |
Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your |
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1973/12/06 |
TLS to Center from Chomsky, Noam |
Thank you very much for contacting me about the correspondence with Thomas Merton. |
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permission and conditions to use his correspondence with Merton
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