Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals

Goodman, Paul
Publisher:  Vintage, New York, USA
Year First Published:  {12488 Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals UTOPIAN ESSAYS AND PRACTICAL PROPOSALS Goodman, Paul Vintage New York USA Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes. 1951 1962 291pp BC12488-UtopianEssays.jpg B Book 978-0394702476 321.07 - <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents: <br> <br>Preface <br>Utopian thinking <br>"Applied science" and superstition <br>Pornography and the sexual revolution <br>Designing pacifist films <br>Post-Christian man <br>On the intellectual inhibition of explosive grief and anger <br>My psychology as a "Utopian sociologist" <br>On a writer's block <br>Notes on a remark of Seami <br>Dr. Reich's banned books <br>Banning cars from Manhattan <br>Seating arrangements: An elementary lecture in functional planning <br>What is a picture? <br>Advance-guard writing in America: 1900-1950 <br>Good interim writing - 1954 <br>Underground writing - 1960 <br>Some problems of interpretation: silence, and speech as action <br>Vocational guidance <br>Youth work camps <br>Crisis and new spirit CX6628 1 true true false CX6628.htm [0xc000fd3800 0xc0010ef890 0xc0012674a0 0xc00127d860 0xc002375920 0xc0001771a0 0xc000511380 0xc00056a7e0 0xc00057e030 0xc00069b6b0 0xc000521110 0xc00017a3c0 0xc000283f20 0xc00059c9c0 0xc000607a70 0xc000c18a50 0xc000c3d440 0xc000dda1b0 0xc00022e9f0 0xc001487410 0xc001c41320 0xc001e4cc90 0xc001e60cc0 0xc001fb0360 0xc001feea80 0xc000243a70 0xc0007c2ed0 0xc0010ec330 0xc0018ae8d0 0xc0018c5770 0xc002364c00 0xc002365500 0xc002365770 0xc0023affb0 0xc002245320 0xc00253c480 0xc00253d770 0xc0025559b0 0xc002583f80 0xc00249e600 0xc001264ae0 0xc00032ca20 0xc0007baa50 0xc000bd0990 0xc000d67bc0 0xc000f4e840 0xc001143500 0xc00116c0c0 0xc0014f0cc0 0xc0015226f0 0xc001f08960 0xc001f39710 0xc001f72db0 0xc001f73500 0xc001fa7e00 0xc0020dd260 0xc0022f5c80 0xc0024d8480 0xc002148690 0xc002167ec0 0xc00217f6e0] Cx}
Year Published:  1962
Pages:  291pp   ISBN:  978-0394702476
  Dewey:  321.07
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6628

Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.

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Table of Contents:

Preface
Utopian thinking
"Applied science" and superstition
Pornography and the sexual revolution
Designing pacifist films
Post-Christian man
On the intellectual inhibition of explosive grief and anger
My psychology as a "Utopian sociologist"
On a writer's block
Notes on a remark of Seami
Dr. Reich's banned books
Banning cars from Manhattan
Seating arrangements: An elementary lecture in functional planning
What is a picture?
Advance-guard writing in America: 1900-1950
Good interim writing - 1954
Underground writing - 1960
Some problems of interpretation: silence, and speech as action
Vocational guidance
Youth work camps
Crisis and new spirit

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