Growing Up Absurd Author:Paul Goodman "Mr. Goodman is terrifying. Utopians usually are when we take them (or they take themselves) seriously. And Goodman is all the more terrifying because he is a rational Utopian who has most of the analytical apparatus and theoretical formulations of modern socialigy, psychology, historiography and aesthetics at his finger tips." -Webster Schott i... more »n The Nation
"The best analysis I have seen of the spiritual emptiness of our technological paradise." -Sir Herbert Read
"Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd is an extraordinary good and important book-the best book i know on the subject of youth...Goodman's is a serious, profound and old fashionedly moral book. with great originality and lucidity, he argues that the Organization Man, the beat and the juvenile delinquent are merely reactions to same basic problem..." -Kenneth Kenistion in The American Scholar
"...Paul Goodman, a man deeply dissatisfied with things as they are, deserves more attention than other less-conscientious objectors...His book is a highly serious effort to understand the relation between society and the disaffected youngster." -John K. Galbraith in The New York Times« less