The Making of a Counter Culture

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Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition

By Theodore Roszak

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The Making of a Counter Culture explores the shared opposition of 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts to technocracy, the corporate and technological elite governing industrial society. Theodore Roszak examines the intellectual roots of these movements through the works of Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, Allan Ginsberg, and Paul Goodman, tracing how these ideas sparked cultural dissent. This edition reflects on the ongoing influence and evolution of the counter culture since the term was coined.
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Ideal for readers interested in social movements, 1960s history, cultural studies, and the interplay of technology and society.

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.

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The original edition of this text found common ground between student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of technocracy — the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society.

The book traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allan Ginsberg and Paul Goodman.

This edition reflects on the evolution of counter culture since Roszak coined the term in the '60s.

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"Whether or not the dissenting young read this book, others who care about our culture, youth, technology and religion should." – Christian Century

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520201224

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 October 1995

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 346

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Theodore Roszak

About the Author

Theodore Roszak is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward. Among his many books are The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995), The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (California, 1994) and, as coeditor, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (1995).