| Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodman's Anarchist Writings Contributor(s): Goodman, Paul (Author), Stoehr, Taylor (Editor), Stoehr, Taylor (Translator) |
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ISBN: 160486057X ISBN-13: 9781604860573 Publisher: PM Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 Annotation: Painting a vivid picture of 1960s counterculture ideas, this new collection of the late Paul Goodman's essential anarchist writings--from utopian essays to practical proposals--reveals how he inspired the dissident youth of the era and profoundly influenced movement theory and practice. Long out-of-print, these provocative, insightful, and incisive pieces analyze citizenship and civil disobedience, decentralization and the organized system--all while still mindful of the long anarchist tradition and of the Jeffersonian democracy that resonated strongly in Goodman's own political thought. A potent antidote to U.S. global imperialism and domestic anomie, this collection also includes a new introduction by Goodman's friend and literary executor, Taylor Stoehr, who explains why these nine core texts will thoroughly explicate anarchism for future generations. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Anarchism - Political Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 320.57 |
| LCCN: 2009901375 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.83" W x 8.82" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was characterized by anarchist historian George Woodcock as "the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation." In this new PM Press initiative, Goodman's literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered together nine core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations. Here will be found the "utopian essays and practical proposals" that inspired the dissident youth of the Sixties, influencing movement theory and practice so profoundly that they have become underlying assumptions of today's radicalism. Goodman's analyses of citizenship and civil disobedience, decentralism and the organized system, show him Drawing the Line Once Again, mindful of the long anarchist tradition, and especially of the Jeffersonian democracy that resonated strongly in his own political thought. This is a deeply American book, a potent antidote to US global imperialism and domestic anomie. |