In fact there is little exploration of how Goodman’s otherwise progressive views clashed with his fundamentally paternalistic domestic arrangement, or the couple’s obvious intellectual and physical rapport (except that Sally recalls being mesmerized by his hands and ability to peel an orange in a single spiral). He interviews daughters Susan and Naomi, and his widow Sally, but does little to shed light on their particular arrangement. Lee also talks to Goodman’s cousin-in-law about his upbringing, and the effect of the accidental 1967 death of beloved son Matthew had on his health and outlook. Surprising, too, is that he was co-author, with Fritz Perls, of the founding text of Gestalt, the theoretical psychotherapy movement, and was a practicing psychoanalyst for a decade.Īrguably more surprising is that while Goodman was once a household name thanks in large part to his 1959 manifesto Growing Up Absurd, the bible of 1960s college students, the book has long been out of print, scarce to find, and largely forgotten. He proposed the radical decentralization of schools and Communitas, a tract of ideas for a communal anarchist, decentralized society, written with his architect cousin Percy, outlines a ban on vehicular traffic in Manhattan and implementation of congestion pricing, decades before London ever thought of it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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