{"product_id":"paul-goodman-reader-paperback-2","title":"Paul Goodman Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTaylor Stoehr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA one-man think-tank for the New Left, Paul Goodman wrote over thirty books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the Sixties. \u003cem\u003eA Paul Goodman Reader\u003c\/em\u003e that does him justice must be a compendious volume, with excerpts not only from best-sellers like \u003cem\u003eGrowing Up Absurd\u003c\/em\u003e, but also from his landmark books on education, community planning, anarchism, psychotherapy, language theory, and poetics. Samples as well from \u003cem\u003eThe Empire City\u003c\/em\u003e, a comic novel reviewers compared to \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e, prize-winning short stories, and scores of poems that led America's most respected poetry reviewer, Hayden Carruth, to exclaim, \u003cem\u003e\"Not one dull page. It's almost unbelievable.\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoodman called himself as an old-fashioned man of letters, which meant that all these various disciplines and occasions added up to a single abiding concern for the human plight in perilous times, and for human promise and achieved grandeur, love and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Goodman was the author of \u003ci\u003eDrawing the Line\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Absurd\u003c\/i\u003e. Known as the philosopher of the New Left, he set the agenda for the youth movement of the 1960s, producing new books every year throughout the decade while lecturing to hundreds of audiences on subjects from movement politics and community planning to language theory and the media. \u003cstrong\u003eTaylor Stoehr is Paul Goodman's literary executor and a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He has edited numerous volumes of Goodman's fiction, poetry, and social commentary in addition to being the author of several other books on literary and cultural criticism and the translator of two poetry collections. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 488\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47332987699449,"sku":"9781604860580","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eXk2enhVTVUzL1AxWm9yOHVlNmxDZz09_c99b7da4-19bf-4f76-b0c7-0e41e3f96f79.webp?v=1769634895","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/paul-goodman-reader-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}