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FREEDRAWING THE LINE ONCE AGAIN: PAUL GOODMANS ANARCHIST WRITINGS EBOOK Paul Goodman | 122 pages | 01 Aug 2010 | PM Press | 9781604860573 | English | Oakland, United States Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodman's Anarchist Writings - Paul Goodman - Google книги Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Painting a vivid picture of s counterculture ideas, this new collection of the late Paul Goodman's essential anarchist writings—from utopian essays to practical proposals—reveals how he inspired the dissident youth of the era and profoundly influenced movement theory and practice. Long out-of-print, these provocative, insightful, and incisive pieces analyze citizenship Painting a vivid picture of s counterculture ideas, this new collection of the late Paul Goodman's essential anarchist writings—from utopian essays to practical proposals—reveals how he inspired the dissident youth of the era and profoundly influenced movement theory and practice. Long out-of-print, these provocative, insightful, and incisive pieces analyze citizenship and civil disobedience, decentralization and the organized system—all while still mindful of the long anarchist tradition and of the Jeffersonian democracy that resonated strongly in Goodman's own political thought. A potent antidote to U. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Drawing the Line Once Againplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Drawing the Line Once Again. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 21, Jesse rated it liked it Shelves: read-in Sometimes I feel as though, for all his failings, there's no one I agree with so much as Paul Goodman. Other times not so much. When he's wrong, he's often really, really wrong some of the logic in "The May Pamphlet" isn't just naive and absurd-- it's farcical. Not to mention terribly written, though it's from and his essays from the 60s are faaaaar more eloquentbut when he's right, it's like he's turned on a light that makes sense of all human endeavour. Sometimes these two things can Sometimes I feel as though, for all his failings, there's no one I agree with so much as Paul Goodman. Sometimes these two things can happen in the same essay ie, "The May Pamphlet" as well as others here. It's puzzling. I strongly disagree with a bunch of his ideas and even more strongly agree with others, to the point that they seem worth building a religion around. Surely a brilliant man, surely human with all the fallibility that brings with it. Surely worth reading. View 1 comment. Sep 30, Viola rated it liked it Shelves: anarchism. In the mids, together with C. Wright Mills, he contributed to Politics, a journal edited then by Dwight Macdonald. Mar 04, Drake rated it it was amazing. I can now see the philosophy of anarchism as one of decentralism towards greater liberty and self-actualization, rather than a philosophy of chaos. The claim that most crimes are political rather than moral is difficult; it contains a great deal of truth but also some dangerous oversimplification simultaneously. Many ideas in this reader have changed me. Jan 14, Braden Stewart rated it liked it. Not Goodman's best collection, but still interesting as always. Nov 12, Bawbee rated it it was amazing. 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He produced new books every year throughout that turbulent decade, while lecturing to hundreds of audiences on the nation's campuses, covering subjects that ranged from movement politics to education and community planning, from psychotherapy and religion to literature and media. Taylor Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodmans Anarchist WritingsPaul Goodman's friend and literary executor, has edited many volumes of his fiction, poetry, and social commentary. Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Stoehr has written many other books of literary and cultural criticism, translated two collections of poetry, and is author of the forthcoming Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program. Click here for one-page information sheet on this product. Cart Contents. Recent Posts. Price: 0. Add To Wishlist. Overview Tell a Friend. Send Message. New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative. Paul Goodman Emphasizing the importance of culture and the arts in society, this reprint of a s classic—the author's last book of social criticism—includes a new introduction that situates the late Paul Goodman in his era. Nicolas Walter Nicolas Walter scorned the pomp and frequent ignorance of the powerful and detested the obfuscatory prose and intellectual limitations of academia. The items collected in this volume display him at his considerable best. The Paul Goodman Reader. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. Peter Marshall Navigating the broad "river of anarchy," from Taoism to Situationism, from anarcho- syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, this volume is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. The Floodgates of Anarchy. Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer Back in print and featuring a new foreword by the authors, Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodmans Anarchist Writings polemic approaches the subject of anarchism in relation to class struggle. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. James In this volume, Noel Ignatiev, provides an extensive introduction to James' life and thought, before presenting two critical works that illustrate the tremendous breadth and depth of James' worldview. Clark and Camille Martin A comprehensive introduction to the thought of this anarchist geographer and political theorist analyzing his sweeping historical and theoretical synthesis. Forgot Password? Loading Tweets I came across this product and thought you may like it. Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodman's Anarchist Writings While relatively unknown today, Paul Goodman was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20 th century. In books like Growing Up Absurd, published inGoodman captured the zeitgeist of his era, catapulting himself to the forefront of American intellectual life as one of the leading dissident thinkers inspiring the burgeoning New Left. Goodman, who passed away in at the age of 60, was an iconoclastic radical with a wide ranging scope of intellectual vision and a multi-faceted character. He was an anarchist, a family man, openly bisexual in a sexually repressive era, a psychologist one of the founders of Gestalt Therapyand a poet. He saw himself as a classical man of letters, and at his peak output, released nearly a book a year. Many of these pieces were later incorporated into his longer works. From advocating a free society, to discussing the nature of language, to an examination of the education system and its function as a system of coercion, the themes and principles outlined in it are revisited time and again throughout his writings. This is one constantly striving towards what Goodman calls the natural society or how we would Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodmans Anarchist Writings and interact with one another if outside elements did not intrude in our lives.
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