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Growing up absurd; Problems of youth in the organized system by Paul Goodman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Growing up absurd; Problems of youth in the organized system about?
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left"Paul Goodman, a man deeply dissatisfied with things as they are, deserves more attention than other less-conscientious objectors.... His book is a highly serious effort to understand the relation between society and the disaffected youngster.” - John K. Galbraith, The New York TimesFor Paul 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. “Mr Goodman is terrifying. Utopians usually are when we take them (or they take themselves) seriously. And Goodman is all the more terrifying because he is a rational Utopian who has most of analytical apparatus
Who reads Growing up absurd; Problems of youth in the organized system?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paul Goodman
- Publisher
- Vintage Books - A Division of Random House
- Published
- 1960
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences
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