New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative

ISBN: 1604860561

Author: Goodman, Paul

Condition: New

New Reformation was Paul Goodmans last book of social criticism. The man who set the agenda for the Youth Movement of the Sixties with his best-selling Growing Up Absurd, and who wrote a book a year to keep his crazy young allies focused on the issues as he saw them, stepped back in 1970 to re-assess the results of what he considered a moral and spiritual upheaval comparable to the Protestant Reformation-the breakdown of belief, and the emergence of new belief, in sciences and professions, education, and civil legitimacy.Michael Fishers introduction situates Goodman in his era and traces the development of his characteristic insights, now the common wisdom of every radical critique of American society. A poet and novelist famous in his day for books on decentralization, community planning, psychotherapy, education, linguistics, and media, nowhere is Goodmans voice more prescient and still relevant than in New Reformation.