Paul Goodman

✶September 9, 1911

†August 2, 1972

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Paul Goodman was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decentralization, democracy, education, media, politics, psychology, technology, urban planning, and war. As a humanist and self-styled man of letters, his works often addressed a common theme of the individual citizen's duties in the larger society, and the responsibility to exercise autonomy, act creatively, and realize one's own human nature.

American writer and public intellectual (1911–1972)

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Biography from the article Paul Goodman on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.