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The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition

Theodore Roszak

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#2544 of 3,809 books · #843 in History

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1970).

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels—and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy—the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on the evolution of counter culture since he coined the term in the sixties.

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Publisher
doubleday & company inc
ISBN-13
9780520201224
Genre
History
Topics
Counterculture and 1960s youth movementsTechnocracy and industrial societyNew Left and student radicalism

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