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 Utopian Essays and Practical ProposalsGoodman, Paul Publisher: Vintage, New York, USAYear Published: 1962 First Published: 1951 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. Abstract: - 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 Subject Headings
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