• For Your Consideration:

• From 1962: A (SCARCE) First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of:

• “THE SOCIETY I LIVE IN IS MINE: An American Writer Engaged in the Day-to-Day Act of Citizenship”
(Horizon Press, 1962) (First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover)

• BY PAUL GOODMAN

• “Our SARTRE…. His writing and mind were touched with grace.”
—SUSAN SONTAG

• ABOUT THIS TITLE:
• “Anyone who occupies a place of power, without the ever-present sense of responsibility which alone can justify that power, is likely to experience the shock of MR. GOODMAN’s citizenship. It consists of a beautiful, rapid circuit of anger into thought into action; and it is charged into motion by any offense, public or corporate, against the hart of individuality or community.

“This in the face of the rampant leveling of our society in this country, is what makes PAUL GOODMAN’s writing so important.

“In his Preface, he says: ‘The society in which I live is mine, open to my voice and action, or I do not live there at all. The government, the school board, the church, the university, the world of publishing and communications, are my agencies as a citizen…. It is appalling how few people regard themselves as citizens, as society-makers, in this existential sense. Rather, people seem to take society as a pre-established machinery of institutions and authorities….’

“The conscience and anger at work in this book by PAUL GOODMAN show what a truly active awareness can mean.”
—THE PUBLISHER

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

• “PAUL GOODMAN (1911–1972) was an American social critic, psychologist, poet, novelist, and anarchist. His writings appeared in POLITICS, PARTISAN REVIEW, THE NEW REPUBLIC, COMMENTARY, THE NEW LEADER, DISSENT, and the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. He published several well-regarded books in a variety of fields—including city planning, Gestalt therapy, literary criticism, and politics—before GROWING UP ABSURD, cancelled by its original publisher and turned down by a number of other presses, was brought out by Random House in 1960.”

—NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS 

• “The prophet and exemplar of a free life in a bureaucratic society.”

—RICHARD KOSTELANETZ

• “GOODMAN, like all real novelists, is, at bottom, a moralist. What really interests him are the various ways in which human beings living in a modern metropolis gain, keep, or lose their integrity and sense of selfhood.”
—W. H. AUDEN

• “A devotee of that genuinely American cult of experience in which the natural man refuses to obey, or rather, seeks to destroy conventional society.”

—MICHAEL HARRINGTON

• “A sage in some areas and a screwball in others." 

—EDMUND FULLER

• “PAUL GOODMAN, a man deeply dissatisfied with things as they are, deserves more attention than other less-conscientious objectors.”
—JOHN K. GALBRAITH, NEW YORK TIMES

• “He is trying to restore to a society gone violent or indifferent (and the violence is bred of uncaring) a sense of live, exploring debate. Between the closing walls of technological determinism and political cliché, he is trying to hack out elbow room for the imagination.”
—GEORGE STEINER, COMMENTARY (1963)

• “The influential social critic PAUL GOODMAN fully earned the title ‘pioneer.’ His call for challenging authority and living outside the lines came well before the arrival of 1960s counterculturalism.”
—CLAUDE PECK, MINNEAPOPLIS STAR TRIBUNE

• “Philosopher, poet, sociologist, pacifist, psychologist, writer, anarchist, open bisexual and spokesman for a generation, PAUL GOODMAN ranked among the most influential thinkers in the latter half of the 20th century.”
—RONNIE SCHEIB, VARIETY

• “MR. PAUL GOODMAN is, roughly speaking, everything except a basketball player.”
—WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

• “His pleading, sane, frank, troubled and by now tired voice is one of the truest and wisest in American life.”
—KENNETH KENISTON, NEW YORK TIMES

• “[The film] PAUL GOODMAN CHANGED MY LIFE pays tribute to a man—poet teacher social critic, guru without portfolio—whose name was once a household word and whose books were talismans of intellectual seriousness and social concern. His current obscurity is something this documentary…is determined to overcome.”
—A. O. SCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES

• “The unifying thread to GOODMAN was his poet’s soul—inquisitive, elastic, and exuberantly defiant.”
—ANDREA GRONVALL, CHICAGO READER

• “As this decade in America careens, recoils, and shrieks along, PAUL GOODMAN appears increasingly as our most exemplary intellectual, that is, the most deeply representative and the most worthy one.”
—THEODORE SOLATORFF, WASHINGTON POST

• “It is no small thing to have been so consistently contrary to the social and intellectual sweep of one’s time.”

—KERRY HOWLEY, BOOKFORUM

• “GOODMAN’s way of seeing is riveting and decidedly infectious.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (2011)

• “ ‘A voice a very good deal undervalued is that of PAUL GOODMAN,’ wrote a review in BOOK WEEK [in 1967]…. ‘GOODMAN is, quite simply, indefatigable,’ our reviewer in BOOK WEEK continued. ‘How characterize him? The Pied Piper of the American Welfare State? Our ST. PAUL of the Inspiring Radicalism? The Intellectuals’ MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.? In some loose sense, PAUL GOODMAN is all these things and more. He is an extraordinary man—decent, patient, incredibly learned—who has some extraordinary things to say about the way we in America live.’

“Was our bubbling reviewer perhaps being ironical, or was he altogether sincere in his enthusiasm? He was quite sincere, allow me to assure you, for I am in a privileged position to know, since I wrote the review…. I no longer believe anything of the kind about PAUL GOODMAN.”

—JOSEPH EPSTEIN, COMMENTARY (1978)

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S ‘GROWING UP ABSURD’:

• “His most famous book, GROWING UP ABSURD, originally commissioned as a study of juvenile delinquency and later a bible of the 1960s student rebellion, remains essential and troubling reading for anyone who cares about the problems of the young.” —A. O. SCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES

• “GROWING UP ABSURD by PAUL GOODMAN...pretty much founded the modern passion for school reform.”
—PAUL BERMAN

• “A highly serious effort to understand the relation between society and the disaffected youngster.”
—JOHN K. GALBRAITH, NEW YORK TIMES

• “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 sociology, psychology, historiography and aesthetics at his fingertips.”
—WEBSTER SCOTT, THE NATION

• “The best analysis I have seen of the spiritual emptiness of our technological paradise.”
—SIR HERBERT READ

• “The very incarnation of the new spirit I had been hoping would be at work in the world.”

—NORMAN PODHORETZ, COMMENTARY

• “PAUL GOODMAN’s GROWING UP ABSURD is an extraordinarily 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 the same basic problem....”
—KENNETH KENISTON, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

• “GOODMAN might be called an intuitive sociologist in his unconventional, erratic yet convincing analysis…. If [JOHN] UPDIKE’s anxiety for his fellow man is subtle, GOODMAN’s angry polemic leaves us no doubt what makes Rabbit run.”
—WASHINGTON POST (1960)

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