Growing Up Absurd

Publisher:  Random House, New York, USA
Year Published:  1962
Pages:  296pp   ISBN:  978-0394700328
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6309

Goodman offers a fundamental critique of the Organized System of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: "Human nature" and the organized system
Jobs
Being taken seriously
Class structure
Aptitude
Patriotism
Social Animal
Faith
An apparently closed room
The early resigned
The early Fatalistic
The missing community

Conclusion
Appendices

Subject Headings

• Absurdity
• Children
• Education