Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society (New York Review Books Classics)

Paul Goodmanâ‚¬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 brilliantlyâ‚¬"he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other thingsâ‚¬"and the bookâ‚¬s surprise success established him as one of Americaâ‚¬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 reÂpressive social and economic system and, as such, the front line of potential resistance.

Noam Chomsky has said, â‚¬Å“Paul Goodmanâ‚¬s impact is all about us,â‚¬Â and certainly it can be felt in the powerful localism of todayâ‚¬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 yesterdayâ‚¬s youth that speaks directly to our common future.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-09-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590175811

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2012-09-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590175811

Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society (New York Review Books Classics)

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