Theodore Roszak (scholar)
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Theodore Roszak was professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay
. He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture
.
. He taught at Stanford University
, the University of British Columbia
, and San Francisco State University
before joining CalState Hayward. During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the pacifist newspaper Peace News
.
Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California on July 5, 2011.
which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s
.
Other books include include Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, The Voice of the Earth (Touchstone Books), The Cult of Information, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science, The Voice of the Earth, and Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth. With his wife Betty, he was co-editor of the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema Flicker
(Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books). His most recent novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.
California State University, East Bay
California State University, East Bay is a public university located in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The university, as part of the 23-campus California State University system, offers over 100 areas of study...
. He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture
The Making of a Counter Culture
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition is a work of non-fiction by Theodore Roszak originally published in 1969....
.
Background
Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and Ph.D. in History from Princeton UniversityPrinceton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He taught at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
, and San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
before joining CalState Hayward. During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the pacifist newspaper Peace News
Peace News
Peace News is a pacifist magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement in the United Kingdom. From later in 1936 to April 1961 it was the official paper of the Peace Pledge Union , and from 1990 to 2004 was co-published with War Resisters' International.-History:Peace News was...
.
Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California on July 5, 2011.
Scholarship
Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter CultureThe Making of a Counter Culture
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition is a work of non-fiction by Theodore Roszak originally published in 1969....
which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s
Counterculture of the 1960s
The counterculture of the 1960s refers to a cultural movement that mainly developed in the United States and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and 1973. The movement gained momentum during the U.S. government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam...
.
Other books include include Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, The Voice of the Earth (Touchstone Books), The Cult of Information, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science, The Voice of the Earth, and Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth. With his wife Betty, he was co-editor of the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema Flicker
Flicker (novel)
Flicker is a novel by Theodore Roszak published in 1991.The novel covers approximately 15–20 years of the life of film scholar Jonathan Gates, whose academic investigations draw him into the shadowy world of esoteric conspiracy that underlies the work of fictional B-movie director Max Castle...
(Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books). His most recent novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.
Awards and honors
- New York Open Center in 1999 for his "Prescient and Influential Analysis of American Culture"
- Guggenheim FellowGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
and was twice nominated for the National Book AwardNational Book AwardThe National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
. - Tiptree Award for The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Non-fiction
- The Dissenting Academy (1968)
- The Making of a Counter Culture (1969)
- Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women (1969)
- Where the Wasteland Ends (1972)
- Sources (1972)
- Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness (1975)
- Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society (1979)
- From Satori to Silicon Valley (1986)
- The Cult of Information (1986)
- Fool's Cycle/Full Cycle (1988) ISBN 0-931191-07-6.
- The Voice of the Earth (1992)
- The Gendered Atom (1999)
- Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club BooksSierra Club BooksSierra Club Books is the publishing division of the Sierra Club, founded in 1960 by then Sierra Club President David Brower. Volumes intended for club members had been published prior to 1960. In addition, books under their name had been published before 1960, but done through already established...
(1995) ISBN 0-87156-406-8 - World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror (2006, ISBN 1-897071-02-7)
- The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation. (2009) New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0865716612
Essays
- "Birth of an Old Generation"
- "When the Counterculture Counted
- "Raging Against the Machine: In its '1984' Commercial, Apple Suggested that its Computers Would Smash Big Brother. But Technology Gave Him More Control." Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, January 28, 2004.
Fiction
- Pontifex (1974)
- Bugs (1981)
- Dreamwatcher (1985)
- FlickerFlicker (novel)Flicker is a novel by Theodore Roszak published in 1991.The novel covers approximately 15–20 years of the life of film scholar Jonathan Gates, whose academic investigations draw him into the shadowy world of esoteric conspiracy that underlies the work of fictional B-movie director Max Castle...
(1991) - The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995)
- The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003)
External links
- ""Social critic and professor Theodore Roszak wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1968" - PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
- "Flashing back to Woodstock" - CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
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Interview: Theodore Roszak: The Making of an Elder Culture by Anne Kingston. August 20, 2009