The original edition of this text found common ground between student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of technocracy -- the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. The book traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allan Ginsberg and Paul Goodman.
Language
English
Pages
303
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Doubleday Books
Release
January 01, 1983
ISBN
0385073291
ISBN 13
9780385073295
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
The original edition of this text found common ground between student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of technocracy -- the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. The book traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allan Ginsberg and Paul Goodman.