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 [0xc000fb3da0 0xc00114c030 0xc0012bc030 0xc0012d23f0 0xc001ca5b60 0xc0001d3200 0xc0004ab950 0xc00050af90 0xc00051a7e0 0xc00057fdd0 0xc0005081e0 0xc000340300 0xc000419e90 0xc0006f4db0 0xc000849ef0 0xc0002a9290 0xc0002e3cb0 0xc000d68d20 0xc00084daa0 0xc001674000 0xc001a2a930 0xc001e26510 0xc001ca7500 0xc000365020 0xc0003d5770 0xc000c3eba0 0xc001244630 0xc0017c8180 0xc00235ac00 0xc002373aa0 0xc00034a8d0 0xc00034b200 0xc00034b470 0xc0003a5cb0 0xc000441ce0 0xc0006772f0 0xc0006d4600 0xc000718840 0xc000790e10 0xc000a384e0 0xc000a39f20 0xc000ed2c00 0xc00130afc0 0xc0015f9050 0xc001756330 0xc001805080 0xc001980150 0xc001980cf0 0xc001ea9b90 0xc001ec35c0 0xc00274a0f0 0xc00275cea0 0xc002770540 0xc002770c90 0xc002789590 0xc002812ae0 0xc0028d35c0 0xc00062de00 0xc0006ed050 0xc0007769c0 0xc0007ca210] 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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