Theodore Roszak
American historian and novelist (1933 to 2011) who named the counterculture.
At a glance
Main ideas
Counterculture, Ecopsychology, The cult of information
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The Making of a Counter Culture, Where the Wasteland Ends, The Cult of Information …
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- Roszak was a historian at California State University, Hayward (later East Bay) and a novelist.
- His 1969 book The Making of a Counter Culture explained the youth rebellion of the 1960s and is credited with the first use of the term "counterculture".
- He later coined the term ecopsychology.
- His fiction includes Flicker and The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein.
Why it matters
- He gave the 1960s youth movement its name and an intellectual account, and helped found ecopsychology.
Key facts
- Born
- 15 Nov 1933, Chicago, Illinois1
- Died
- 5 Jul 2011, at his home in Berkeley, California, aged 771
- Education
- BA, UCLA (1955); PhD in history, Princeton (1958)1
- Career
- Stanford from 1958 to 1963; then Cal State Hayward, ending as professor emeritus of history1
- Editor
- Peace News, London, from 1964 to 19651
- Awards
- Tiptree Award (1995) for The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein; Guggenheim Fellow; twice nominated for the National Book Award1
Main ideas
Books to start with
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The Making of a Counter Culture1
The technocratic society and its youthful opposition.
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Where the Wasteland Ends1
One of his later non-fiction books.
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The Cult of Information1
Computers and the true art of thinking.
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The Voice of the Earth1
Where he named ecopsychology.
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