: reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition Roszak, Theodore creator Roszak, Theodore text Berkeley : University of California Press 1995 monographic eng

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xlii, 303 pages ; 21 cm 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 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. / Theodore Roszak Social Sciences Social history -- 1945-1960 Social history -- 1960-1970 Civilization, Modern Social history Contre-culture Adolescents -- Subcultures -- History United States Civilization, Modern 08.42 philosophy of culture Counterculture 309 ROS 9780520201224 :Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. :E/261, Shastri Nagar Delhi 200827 20211004151136.0