<The> making of a counter culture reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition

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. Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society—all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian." 9780385020077 The Making of a Counter Culture 1 COVER 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 3 DETAILS 5 CONTENTS 6 PREFACE 8 THE MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE 10 Chapter I TECHNOCRACY'S CHILDREN 11 Chapter II AN INVASION OF CENTAURS 52 Chapter III THE DIALECTICS OF LIBERATION: HERBERT MARCUSE AND NORMAN BROWN 94 Chapter IV JOURNEY TO THE EAST ... AND POINTS BEYOND: ALLEN GINSBERG AND ALAN WATTS 134 Chapter V THE COUNTERFEIT INFINITY: THE USE AND ABUSE OF PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE 165 Chapter VI EXPLORING UTOPIA: THE VISIONARY SOCIOLOGY OF PAUL GOODMAN 188 Chapter VII THE MYTH OF OBJECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS 215 Chapter VIII EYES OF FLESH, EYES OF FIRE 249 Appendix OBJECTIVITY UNLIMITED 278 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 300 BACK COVER 313 When it was first published, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels--as well as their baffled elders. The author 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, Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Goodman. Study in social theory examining the rejection by youth of contemporary social structures and traditional values and the resulting cultural changes and social changes - covers psychological aspects, sociological aspects and the attitudes of youth to philosophy, religion, science, etc., and examines the need for creative thinking and Innovation to transform the present disoriented civilisation