Ricercare la libertà. Noam Chomsky: anarchismo americano ed educazione

Anarchism is a multiverse, so many are the styles and tendencies contributing to its weave. Hostile to any impulse toward middleness, refractory to any school assurance, anarchism seems to frustrate all attempts to place it within the boundaries, although unstable and blurred, of a general theory. Chomsky, inheritor of the values of the Illuminism radical humanism, as well as of the history of the progressive education ideas of John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, bets on the possibility that we will have a pedagogy capable of enhancing everyone’s creativity and liberty, of placing itself beyond a pastoral politology which turns into orthopedagogy especially through school. Moving from an historical excursus on American anarchism and on the clarifying theorisation of Paul Goodman – which appears to be the most pedagogically innervated in the U.S. landscape – this essay aims to shed light on the libertarian education of Noam Chomsky.