Paul Goodman
Writer, Author
1911 – 1972
Who was Paul Goodman?
Paul Goodman was an American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist, although now best known as a social critic, anarchist philosopher, and public intellectual. Though often thought of as a sociologist, he vehemently denied being one in a presentation in the Experimental College at San Francisco State in 1964, and in fact said he could not read sociology because it was too often lifeless. The author of dozens of books including Growing Up Absurd and The Community of Scholars, Goodman was an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and a frequently cited inspiration to the student movement of that decade. A lay therapist for a number of years, he was a co-founder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and '50s.
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- Born
- Sep 9, 1911
Greenwich Village - Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- City College of New York
- University of Chicago
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Aug 2, 1972
North Stratford
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on July 23, 2013
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