Growing Up Absurd
Encyclopedia
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society is a non-fiction
book written by Paul Goodman
and published in 1960
. This book analyses the causes and effects of: "the disgrace of the Organised System, of semimonopolies, government
, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation".
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
book written by Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman (writer)
Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement...
and published in 1960
1960 in literature
The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom....
. This book analyses the causes and effects of: "the disgrace of the Organised System, of semimonopolies, government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation".
In popular culture
Growing Up Absurd is featured briefly in the final scene of the film SlackerSlacker (film)
Slacker is an American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991.-Plot summary:...
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