Theodore Roszak (1) (1933–2011)
Author of The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
For other authors named Theodore Roszak, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Theodore Roszak was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 15, 1933. He received a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in English history from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, San Francisco State University, and California State University, Hayward. show more His only lengthy departure from academia was when he served as editor of Peace News in London during 1964 and 1965. His writings and social philosophy have been controversial since the publication of The Making of a Counter Culture in 1968. His other nonfiction works include Where the Wasteland Ends, Person/Planet, The Voice of the Earth, The Cult of Information, and Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth. He also wrote several novels including Flicker, The Devil and Daniel Silverman, and Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, which won the Tiptree Award. He died of cancer on July 5, 2011 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Theodore Roszak
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (1969) 625 copies
The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (1985) 400 copies
Sources: An Anthology of Contemporary Materials Useful for Preserving Personal Sanity While Braving the Technological… (1972) 53 copies
Associated Works
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973) — Introduction, some editions — 2,829 copies
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- Roszak, Theodore
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- 1933-11-15
- Date of death
- 2011-07-05
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- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (BA - History)
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- California State University, East Bay
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- The New York Times called Dr. Roszak "the generation’s cheerleader" for baby boomers, chronicling and extolling their youthful counterculture (a name he coined) and campus rebellions, and their "journey from hippies to hip replacement." He taught for 35 years at what is now California State University, East Bay, retiring in 1998.
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Sources: An Anthology of Contemporary Materials… by Theodore Roszak
Published in 1972, has some interesting texts from that era. Divided into sections: Person, Body, Community, Whole Earth, and Transcendence,
I am one for a good, hard-thinking book...but this one was well above my head. There were moments where I felt like I was with it and totally saw the connections between Frankenstein and gendered biases in science...then, pages later, nope.
A most fascinating book, which shows (subtly) how a bunch of opportunistic capitalist crooks - by the names of Steve and William - turned the wonderful 'machines of love and grace' devised by geniuses like Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay, and promoted by supreme idealists like Fred Moore, into just yet another oppressive counterproductive tool to make the rich richer.
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