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Paul Goodman | Essais | PM Press | Date de parution: 2010 | ISBN-13: 9781604860566 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais
"I have tried to show that in a complex society which is a network rather than a monolith with a head, a piecemeal approach can be effective; it is the safest, least likely to produce ruinous consequences of either repression or "success"; it involves people where they are competent, or could become competent, and so creates citizens, which is better than "politicizing"; it more easily dissolves the metaphysical despair that nothing can be done. And since, in my opinion, the aim of politics is to produce not a good society but a tolerable one, it is best to try to cut abuses down to manageable size, the best solutions are usually not global but a little of this and a little of that." - From New Reformation
"As this decade in America careens, recoils, and shrieks along, Paul Goodman appears increasingly as our most exemplary intellectual, that is, the most deeply representative and the most worthy one." - Theodore Solotaroff, The Washington Post
New Reformation was Paul Goodman's 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." In his introduction Michael Fisher speaks for a new generation of young scholars as he assesses the initial impact and continuing relevance of Goodman's problematic love affair with the radical youth of the Sixties.
Paul Goodman, known in his day as "the philosopher of the New Left," lectured to hundreds of audiences on the nation's campuses, covering subjects that ranged from movement politics to education and community planning, from psychotherapy and religion to literature, language theory and media. During this same heady period of his fame he also published his public letters and his journals, the Living Theatre performed his plays, his poems were set to music, and his fiction was chosen for book club distribution.
Michael C. Fisher wrote his honors thesis on Goodman as an undergraduate at the University of California at Davis, and is currently in his second year of doctoral studies in history at the University of Rochester.
