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THE MAKING OF THE COUNTERCULTURE : REFLECTIONS ON THE TECHNOCRATIC SOCIETY AND ITS YOUTHFUL OPPOSITION
By Theodore Roszak
Published by Anchor / Doubleday, New York 1969 printing
This book is a soft cover in very good condition with 303 pages.
CONTENTS
Preface
I. Technocracy's Children
II. An Invasion of Centaurs
III. The Dialectics of Liberation: Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown
IV. Journey to the East . . . and Points Beyond: Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts
V. The Counterfeit Infinity: The Use and Abuse of Psychedelic Experience
VI. Exploring Utopia: The Visionary Sociology of Paul Goodman
VII. The Myth of Objective Consciousness
VIII. Eyes of Flesh, Eyes of Fire
Appendix: Objectivity Unlimited
Bibliographical Notes
FROM THE COVER = "Most of what is presently happening that is new, provocative and engaging in politics, education, the arts, social relations (love, courtship, family, community) is the creation either of youth who are profoundly, even fanatically, alienated from the parental generation, or of those who address them-selves primarily to the young."
Starting from this premise, Theodore Roszak examines in detail some of the leading influences on the youthful counter culture Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Paul Goodman and shows how each has helped to call into question the conventional scientific world view and in so doing has set about undermining the foundations of the technocracy.
He then turns his attention to "the myth of objective consciousness," and suggests that a culture which subordinates or degrades visionary experience commits the sin of diminishing our existence. For the question facing us is not "How shall we know?" but "How shall we live?" And in finding the answer we must reconstitute the magical world view from which human creativity and community derive. So that, finally, "the primary project of our counter culture is to proclaim a new heaven and a new earth so vast, so marvelous that the inordinate claims of technical expertise must of necessity withdraw to a subordinate and marginal status in the lives of men."
MORE ABOUT == Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was a United States academic who ended his career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture.
Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and PhD in History from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and San Francisco State University before joining Cal State Hayward. During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the newspaper Peace News. He was featured prominently in the "Alternative Lifestyles in California" episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search.
Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California on July 5, 2011.
Scholarship == Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter Culture which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s. He is generally credited with the first use of the term "counterculture".
THE GREENING OF AMERICA
By Charles Reich
Published by Bantam Books, New York
1971 second soft cover printing
This book is a soft cover in near fine condition with 434 pages.
The Greening of America is a 1970 book by Charles A. Reich. It is a paean to
the counterculture of the 1960s and its values. Excerpts first appeared as an
essay in the September 26, 1970 issue of The New Yorker. The book was
originally published by Random House. The book's argument rests on three
separate types of consciousness.
"Consciousness I" applies to the world-view of rural farmers and small business people that arose and was dominant in 19th century America.
"Consciousness II" represents a viewpoint of "an organizational society", featuring meritocracy and improvement through various large institutions; it dominated the New Deal, World War II and 1950s generations.
"Consciousness III" represents the worldview of the 1960s counterculture, focusing on personal freedom, egalitarianism and recreational drugs.
The book mixed sociological analysis with panegyrics to rock music, cannabis, and blue jeans, arguing that these fashions embodied a fundamental shift in world view.
The book was a best-seller in 1970 and 1971, and topped the New York Times Best Seller list on December 27, 1970.
CONTENTS
I. THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION
II. CONSCIOUSNESS I: LOSS OF REALITY
III. THE FAILURE OF REFORM
IV. CONSCIOUSNESS II
V. ANATOMY OF THE CORPORATE STATE
VI. THE LOST SELF
VII. "IT'S JUST LIKE LIVING"
VIII. THE MACHINE BEGINS TO SELF-DESTRUCT
IX. CONSCIOUSNESS III: THE NEW GENERATION
X. BEYOND YOUTH: RECOVERY OF SELF
XI. REVOLUTION BY CONSCIOUSNESS
XII. THE GREENING OF AMERICA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK == Written by a professor of law at Yale University, The Greening of America is a serious attempt to analyze sympathetically the youth culture that is turning this country around.
The author says that America's institutions are not working: "America is dealing death, not only to people in other lands, but also to its people." Professor Reich offers an interpretation of how America went wrong, and of the rebirth of human values that is emerging in the new generation. The analysis cuts across history, law, economics, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. It asserts that the many ills of our society, from war to poverty to depersonalization, can all be understood as symptoms of the usurpation of all values by the modern corporate state, a usurpation that is just now beginning to be reversed.
For we suffer from a lack of community and a loss-of-self. Americans are violently alienated from themselves and from each other.
Only the kind of transcendent revolution that our young people are proposing, based on the intuition that each of us can transform his own personal life now with-out "waiting for the world to be right," can save us now. Although the book is necessarily a study of the structure of society, its focus is on our individual lives. Liberal reformism failed, the book contends, because it offered no new way of life. The new revolution of consciousness does offer a new way of life that is nothing less than a new vision of human existence freedom, creativity, humor, love, community made possible and necessary by technology. These possibilities are not limited to youth, but are open to all. Despite the despair that we all must realistically feel, the sterile and death-dealing American wasteland can still bring forth a new flowering of the human spirit.
CHARLES A. REICH teaches law at Yale University Law School. He was born in 1928 in New York. His articles have appeared in the Yale Review, The Public Interest, The New Republic, The Nation, the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, and other popular and scholarly journals.
THE CON III CONTROVERSY: THE CRITICS LOOK AT THE GREENING OF AMERICA
By Philip Nobile
Published by Pocket Books , New York 1971 second printing
This book is a soft cover in near fine condition with 274 pages.
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I - Short Takes
1. Unresisting Imbecility by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
2. A Bag of Scary Mush by STEWART ALSOP
3. We'll Build a Stairway to Paradise by KARL E. MEYER
4. The Soft Revolution by NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
5. The Politics of Disneyland by GABBY WILLS
6. Charles Reich as Revolutionary Ostrich by HERBERT MARCUSE
7. Who's Minding the Store? by JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
8. The Insufficiency of Revolutionary Consciousness by TOM HAYDEN
9. Consciousness III Is Not the Answer by GEORGE F. KENNAN
10. Whispers of Uneasiness by PETER MARIN
11. The Language of the Young by RALPH J. GLEASON
12. Greening of America-Only on Weekends? by JOEL KRAMER
13. The Real Greening of America: A Fortune Editorial by MAX WAYS
PART II - Reich and Greening at Yale
14. Amer Studies 36a
15. The Greening of Love by JEFFREY GORDON.
16. Why is the New York Times Op. Ed. Page so Bad? by DOUGLAS HALLETT
17. Agnew Si, Reich No by ISAAC KRAMNICK.
18. Agnew No, Reich No by BOB ROTH.
19. Important, Strange, Paradoxical by ROBERT LOUIS JACKSON
PART III - Commentaries
20. The Fuzzing of America by SAMUEL McCRACKEN
21. The Greening of America: Beyond the Valley of the Heads by ANDREW KOPKIND
22. Reich and the Romantics by CHARLES FRIED
23. Reich As Popularist by ROBERT CHRISTGAU
24. The Redeeming of America According to Charles Reich by ANDREW GREELEY
25. No New Spring In America by MICHAEL NOVAK
26. The Peanut Butter Statement by NATHAN GLAZER
27. Charles Reich: Prophet of Doom by NAHUM A. BERNSTEIN
28. The Myth of Ecstatic Community by EMILE CAPOUYA
29. Consciousness III: A Trail to Nowhere by ROGER STARR
30. The Defoliation of Charles Reich by MICHAEL HARRINGTON
PART IV - Extrapolations
31. Greening and the Intellectuals by PETER STEINFELS
32. The Greenness within: Notes on Interiorism, Gnosticism, Lilies of the Field, and the Walls of Jericho by ANSELM ATKINS
33. Reich: A Libertarian View by JEROME TUCCILLE
34. Sex in Con III by LINDA HENRY FOREST
35. Reich and Women by NANCY R. MCWILLIAMS
36. Dressing Up for Consciousness III by BLAIR SABOL
37. Can a Man Who Hates the Jukebox Love the Beatles? by ELLEN WILLIS
38. From Caligari to Consciousness III: Reich Goes to the Movies by MOLLY HASKELL
39. Power Politics in a Greened America by EDWARD SCHNEIER
40. Literary Politics: A Critique of the Con III Bookshelf by LEONARD KREIGEL
41.
An Interview with Dwight MacDonald by PHILIP NOBILE
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