Growing Up Absurd
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Growing Up Absurd is a 1960 book by Paul Goodman on the relationship between American juvenile delinquency and societal opportunities to fulfill natural needs. Contrary to the then-popular view that j
First paperback edition
Goodman, c. 1959
The author, c. 1964
The May Pamphlet
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The May Pamphlet is a collection of six anarchist essays written and published by Paul Goodman in 1945. Goodman discusses the problems of living in a society that represses individual instinct through
Growing Up Absurd
…the simple pleasures of daily life for the securities of living under an affluent, mechanized order enabled by corporations, a situation he calls "sociolatry". To Goodman, this trade-off—that a society would choose the preservation of its systems over the sake of its own people—is "absurd". Goodman holds…
The author in the late 1940s
Why?, April 1944
Retort, Winter 1947
Politics, December 1945