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The making of a counter culture : reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition / Theodore Roszak

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. | :E/261, Shastri Nagar DelhiPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995.Description: xlii, 303 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780520201224
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 309 ROS
Contents:
Introduction to the 1995 edition -- Preface -- Technocracy's children -- An invasion of centaurs -- The dialectics of liberation: Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown -- Journey to the east and points beyond: Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts -- The counterfeit infinity: the use and abuse of psychedelic experience -- Exploring utopia: the visionary sociology of Paul Goodman -- The myth of objective consciousness -- Eyes of flesh, eyes of fire -- Appendix: Objectivity unlimited -- Biographical notes.
Summary: Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society, with constructive criticism. Read less
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Introduction to the 1995 edition --
Preface --
Technocracy's children --
An invasion of centaurs --
The dialectics of liberation: Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown --
Journey to the east and points beyond: Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts --
The counterfeit infinity: the use and abuse of psychedelic experience --
Exploring utopia: the visionary sociology of Paul Goodman --
The myth of objective consciousness --
Eyes of flesh, eyes of fire --
Appendix: Objectivity unlimited --
Biographical notes.

Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society, with constructive criticism. Read less

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