The Paul Goodman Reader by Stoehr, Taylor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Introduction Preface to Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals Politics

The Anarchist Principle Freedom and Autonomy Reflections on Drawing the Line What Must Be the Revolutionary Program? The Missing Community Civil Disobedience The Crisis of Belief “Getting Into Power”: The ambiguities of pacifist politics Social Criticism Politics Within Limits

Technology and Planning

Introduction to Communitas Two Points of Philosophy and an Example The Human Uses of Science

Education

The Present Moment in Education The Universe of Discourse in Which They Grow Up The Unteachables Youth Work Camps

Media and Culture

The Present Plight of a Man of Letters Format and Communication The Shape of the Screen and the Darkness of the Theater Designing Pacifist Films Reflections on Literature as a Minor Art The Chance for Popular Culture

Literature

Western Tradition and World Concern Literary Method and Author-Attitude Wordsworth’s Poems Notes for a Defense of Poetry

Psychology and Theology

Anthropology of Neurosis The Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life Post-Christian Man Beyond My Horizon

Fiction

Iddings Clark A Cross-Country Runner at Sixty-Five A Ceremonial The Commodity Embodied in BREAD Terry Fleming, or Are You Planning a Universe? Eagle’s Bridge: The Death of a Dog

The Politics of Lothario The Social Compact The State of Nature Mynheer’s Valedictory to Man A Community of Human Relations The Trial

Poems

The Lordly Hudson Birthday Cake Fever and Health Such beauty as hurts to behold For Henry Hudson One thing, thank God, I learned

The flashing shadow of the sun Father, guide and lead me stray By trials too hard for me beset Jail and blows, being a coward, My anger has become Creator of the worlds, O joy All men are mad some way: O Lord If I undertake to say I am willing, God, to say I have no further grief in me. My Bible text, when I grew Some happy folk their faith Sometimes I said I was marooned I ask the Lord, “Who are You?” Pagan Rites Going mad with melancholy The beauty of the world

The Russians Resume Bomb-Testing, October 1961 The Americans Resume Bomb-Testing, April 1962 Kent State, May 4, 1970 1945–1970 Go tell Aunt Rhody, go tell Aunt Rhody Where is the little old woman in tennis shoes Darius, says Herodotus, invaded Greece So as I grow old I philosophically compare Let me praise rapid speech Proverbs of a Small Farm In the Jury Room, in Pain My poor one! Ocean. Unexpected Sunflowers Out of every wave lapping over the ledge

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