{"product_id":"the-paul-goodman-reader","title":"The Paul Goodman Reader, edited by Taylor Stoehr ~","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA one-man think tank, Paul Goodman wrote more than 30 books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the 1960s. Goodman in those earlier days thought of himself mostly as an old-fashioned man of letters, and to do justice to his wide-ranging interests and growing activism, this compendium provides excerpts that span his entire career, from the bestselling Growing Up Absurd to landmark books on anarchism, community planning, education, poetics, and psychotherapy. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoodman's fiction and poetry are represented by The Empire City, a comic novel; prize-winning short stories; and poems that once led America's most respected poetry reviewer, Hayden Carruth, to exclaim, \"Not one dull page. It’s almost unbelievable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat happens when a society asks its young people to grow up but gives them too little worthwhile work to do? That question runs through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrowing Up Absurd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the book that made Paul Goodman one of America’s most provocative social critics in the 1960s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Paul Goodman Reader\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Taylor Stoehr brings selections from that work together with Goodman’s writings on education, anarchism, psychotherapy and town planning, alongside his fiction and poetry. Goodman is still worth reading for the questions he asks about ordinary life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat would schools look like if they gave curiosity more room? How might neighbourhoods change if the people who lived in them had more say in how they were built? His impatience with institutions goes hand in hand with a generous faith in what people can do for themselves and for one another.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60408584470873,"sku":"Shelf 12","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/6021\/files\/9781604860580.jpg?v=1794080117","url":"https:\/\/www.quaybooksstore.com\/products\/the-paul-goodman-reader","provider":"Quay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}