Growing Up Absurd

Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175816
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Absurd written by Paul Goodman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s surprise success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hands-on way with words. For Goodman, the unhappiness of young people was a concentrated form of the unhappiness of American society as a whole, run by corporations that provide employment (if and when they do) but not the kind of meaningful work that engages body and soul. Goodman saw the young as the first casualties of a humanly re­pressive social and economic system and, as such, the front line of potential resistance. Noam Chomsky has said, “Paul Goodman’s impact is all about us,” and certainly it can be felt in the powerful localism of today’s renascent left. A classic of anarchist thought, Growing Up Absurd not only offers a penetrating indictment of the human costs of corporate capitalism but points the way forward. It is a tale of yesterday’s youth that speaks directly to our common future.

Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175964
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Absurd written by Paul Goodman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s surprise success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hands-on way with words. For Goodman, the unhappiness of young people was a concentrated form of the unhappiness of American society as a whole, run by corporations that provide employment (if and when they do) but not the kind of meaningful work that engages body and soul. Goodman saw the young as the first casualties of a humanly re­pressive social and economic system and, as such, the front line of potential resistance. Noam Chomsky has said, “Paul Goodman’s impact is all about us,” and certainly it can be felt in the powerful localism of today’s renascent left. A classic of anarchist thought, Growing Up Absurd not only offers a penetrating indictment of the human costs of corporate capitalism but points the way forward. It is a tale of yesterday’s youth that speaks directly to our common future.

Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Absurd written by Paul Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814262
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost In Place written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.

Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Absurd written by Paul Goodman and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1960 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the problems of the younger generation to such factors in organized society as the business world and the "rat race", the class system, etc. Describes the attitudes of the "beatniks" and other rebels against modern society.

Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher : Pm Press
ISBN 13 : 9781604860580
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paul Goodman Reader written by Paul Goodman and published by Pm Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-man think tank, Paul Goodman wrote more than 30 books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the 1960s. Goodman in those earlier days thought of himself mostly as an old-fashioned man of letters, and to do justice to his wide-ranging interests and growing activism, this compendium provides excerpts that span his entire career, from the bestselling Growing Up Absurd to landmark books on anarchism, community planning, education, poetics, and psychotherapy. Goodman's fiction and poetry are represented by The Empire City, a comic novel; prize-winning short stories; and poems that once led America's most respected poetry reviewer, Hayden Carruth, to exclaim, "Not one dull page. It's almost unbelievable."

Author : Ronald Strickland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742516519
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Postmodern written by Ronald Strickland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

Author : Cindi Katz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816642095
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Global written by Cindi Katz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Author : Matt Feeney
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541645588
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Platoons written by Matt Feeney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening book brilliantly explores the true roots of over-parenting, and makes a case for the vital importance of family life. Parents naturally worry about the future. They want to prepare their children to compete in an uncertain world. But often, argues political philosopher and father of three Matt Feeney, today's worried parents surrender their family's autonomy to gain a leg up in this competition. In the American ideal, family life is a sacred and private sphere, distinct from the outside world. But in our hypercompetitive times, Feeney shows, parents have become increasingly willing to let the inner life of the family be colonized by outside forces that promise better futures for their kids: prestigious preschools, "educational" technologies, youth sports leagues, a multitude of enrichment activities, and -- most of all -- college. A provocative, eye-opening book for any parent who suspects their kids' stuffed schedules are not serving their best interests, Little Platoons calls us to rediscover the distinctive, profound solidarity of family life.

Author : Susan J. Douglas
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0812925300
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Girls Are written by Susan J. Douglas and published by Crown. This book was released on 1995-03-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.