The Making of a Counter Culture
Also known as The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
Theodore Roszak's 1969 account of the 1960s counterculture against technocracy.
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Technocracy, A common rejection
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Theodore Roszak and Herbert Marcuse
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- Roszak chronicled and explained the counterculture of the 1960s in Europe and North America.
- He found common ground between student radicals and hippie dropouts in their rejection of the technocracy, the rule of corporate and technical expertise.
- He traced their ideas to Herbert Marcuse, Norman O.
- Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman.
Why it matters
- It named the counterculture and became one of the defining books of its era.
Key facts
- Author
- Theodore Roszak1
- Published
- 1969, Doubleday & Co.1
- Coined
- The term "counterculture" was first used by Roszak in this book1
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