Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
by Goffman, Ken; Joy, Dan | PB | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 0812974751
- Book Title
- Counterculture Through the Ages : from Abraham to Acid House
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 5 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Social History, Popular Culture, World
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 8 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812974751
ISBN-13
9780812974751
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45420753
Product Key Features
Book Title
Counterculture Through the Ages : from Abraham to Acid House
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Social History, Popular Culture, World
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
5 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-301140
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"In an age of corporate cool-hunting and target-marketed faux rebellion, along comes an inspirational work of scholarship to remind us of just how beyond 'cool' true rebels really are, and have always been. I am forever grateful to Ken Goffman for serving as my first guide through the starlit mire of countercultural thought and activity. Read this book, by all means. He knows his way around." DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Cyberia , Media Virus , Ecstasy Club , and Nothing Sacred "I read Ken Goffman's least musings with utterly focused, indeed almost reverent attention." BRUCE STERLING, author of The Zenith Angle and Tomorrow Now "Being of the same energy field myself, I now throw a sack full of gold dust into the arena and dare anyone to be either funnier or smarter than this R. U. Sirius." ANDREI CODRESCU "This is a brilliant book. R. U. Sirius lived and created the cyberpunk culture in the 1980s. Now he and coauthor Dan Joy have written a sweeping history of countercultures through the ages, starting with the myth that still helps define our relationship with technology, that of the fire-snatching hacker Prometheus. Defying authority with creative edge has been a powerful force throughout history, and R. U. Sirius captures the magic with the authentic insight of someone who's been a rider on that wave." -Walter Isaacson, former chairman and ceo of CNN, author of Benjamin Franklin: an American Life "Edge-thinker and media rabble-rouser Ken Goffman has done us all a great service with his entertaining and enlightening book Counterculture Through the Ages . With passion and wry humor, Goffman unfurls a secret history of rebels, ranters, mystics, and bohos united by their distrust of authority. By placing more recent social struggles in this juicy (and sometimes hilarious) context, Goffman and coauthor Dan Joy reveal the deeper dimensions of our current quest for freedom and fun in a shrinking world of surveillance and control." -Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information From the Hardcover edition., "In an age of corporate cool-hunting and target-marketed faux rebellion, along comes an inspirational work of scholarship to remind us of just how beyond 'cool' true rebels really are, and have always been. I am forever grateful to Ken Goffman for serving as my first guide through the starlit mire of countercultural thought and activity. Read this book, by all means. He knows his way around." DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Cyberia, Media Virus, Ecstasy Club, and Nothing Sacred "I read Ken Goffman's least musings with utterly focused, indeed almost reverent attention." BRUCE STERLING, author of The Zenith Angle and Tomorrow Now "Being of the same energy field myself, I now throw a sack full of gold dust into the arena and dare anyone to be either funnier or smarter than this R. U. Sirius." ANDREI CODRESCU "This is a brilliant book. R. U. Sirius lived and created the cyberpunk culture in the 1980s. Now he and coauthor Dan Joy have written a sweeping history of countercultures through the ages, starting with the myth that still helps define our relationship with technology, that of the fire-snatching hacker Prometheus. Defying authority with creative edge has been a powerful force throughout history, and R. U. Sirius captures the magic with the authentic insight of someone who's been a rider on that wave." -Walter Isaacson, former chairman and ceo of CNN, author of Benjamin Franklin: an American Life "Edge-thinker and media rabble-rouser Ken Goffman has done us all a great service with his entertaining and enlightening book Counterculture Through the Ages. With passion and wry humor, Goffman unfurls a secret history of rebels, ranters, mystics, and bohos united by their distrust of authority. By placing more recent social struggles in this juicy (and sometimes hilarious) context, Goffman and coauthor Dan Joy reveal the deeper dimensions of our current quest for freedom and fun in a shrinking world of surveillance and control." -Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Dewey Decimal
306/.1
Synopsis
As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it's in plain sight, challenging the status " and at still other times it erupts in a fiery burst of creative-or destructive-energy to change the world forever. But until now the countercultural phenomenon has been one of history's great blind spots. Individual countercultures have been explored, but never before has a book set out to demonstrate the recurring nature of counterculturalism across all times and societies, and to illustrate its dynamic role in the continuous evolution of human values and cultures. Countercultural pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly sets the record straight in this colorful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging study based on ideas developed by the late Timothy Leary with Dan Joy. With a distinctive mix of scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Sirius and Joy identify the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that, for all their surface differences, countercultures share important underlying principles: individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and a belief in the possibility of personal and social transformation. Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of ancient Athens and the outsider movements of Judaism, which left indelible marks on Western culture, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, which were equally influential in the East, to the famous countercultural moments of the last century-Paris in the twenties, Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Tropicalismo, women's liberation, punk rock-to the cutting-edge countercultures of the twenty-first century, which combine science, art, music, technology, politics, and religion in astonishing (and sometimes disturbing) new ways, Counterculture Through the Ages is an indispensable guidebook to where we've been . . . and where we're going., With a distinctive mix of scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Counterculture Through the Ages sets forth the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that, for all their surface differences, they share important underlying principles. Enjoyable antic...a madcap trip across time and myth.' - The Washington Post 'This is a brilliant book [with] authentic insight.' - Walter Isaacson', Individual countercultures have been explored, but never before has a book set out to demonstrate the recurring nature of counterculturalism across all times and societies, and to illustrate its dynamic role in the continuous evolution of human values and cultures.
LC Classification Number
HM647
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