{"product_id":"paul-goodman-reader","title":"Paul Goodman Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eA one-man think-tank for the New Left, Paul Goodman wrote over thirty books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the Sixties. \u003cem\u003eA Paul Goodman Reader\u003c\/em\u003e that does him justice must be a compendious volume, with excerpts not only from best-sellers like \u003cem\u003eGrowing Up Absurd\u003c\/em\u003e, but also from his landmark books on education, community planning, anarchism, psychotherapy, language theory, and poetics. Samples as well from \u003cem\u003eThe Empire City\u003c\/em\u003e, a comic novel reviewers compared to \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e, prize-winning short stories, and scores of poems that led America's most respected poetry reviewer, Hayden Carruth, to exclaim, \u003cem\u003e\"Not one dull page. It's almost unbelievable.\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoodman called himself as an old-fashioned man of letters, which meant that all these various disciplines and occasions added up to a single abiding concern for the human plight in perilous times, and for human promise and achieved grandeur, love and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45787282636847,"sku":"9781604860580","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_3e76edcf-8d67-42b3-8193-65b35a707bc9.jpg?v=1786148181","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/paul-goodman-reader","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}