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Paul Goodman, né le 9 septembre 1911 à Greenwich Village et mort le 2 août 1972 dans le New Hampshire un mois avant ses 61 ans, est un écrivain et penseur américain, conseiller politique de la gauche américaine des années 1960. Ce chercheur universitaire, spécialiste de l'histoire de l'Amérique populaire, a été un poète, un romancier, un auteur de théâtre, un essayiste, un éducateur et un moraliste anarchiste. Féru de philosophie et d'études sociales, il est aussi passionné par les cultures étrangères, l'expression corporelle et le théâtre. Il est l'un des fondateurs de la Gestalt-thérapie. Wikipedia

✵ 9. septembre 1911 – 2. août 1972

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Paul Goodman: Citations en anglais

“Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 83.

“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. … The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don’t more people speak up and say so?”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. x.

“One striking characteristic of modern education is the unanimous disapproval of exploiting the powerful feeling of shame. … Yet in ancient education, e. g. in the Socratic dialogs, this very arousal of shame is a chief device; the teacher greets the hot flush as a capital sign that the youth is educable, he has noble aims. Such a youth has dignity in his very shame.
The difference seems to be that we cannot offer available opportunities for honor, we do not have them; and therefore we must protect what shreds of dignity the youth has. Since he has no future, if we make him ashamed of his past and present, he is reduced to nothing. In other ages, the community had plenty of chances of honor, and to belong to the community itself was an honor.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 149.

“Their religion is unfeasible, for one cannot richly meet the glancing present … without long discipleship and secure sustenance.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 189.

“To want a job that exercises a man’s capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the “sole prerogative” to determine the products.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 37.

“We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 153.

“Because of their historical theory of the “alienation of labor” (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 37.

“The “brightness” of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 85.

“During childhood, they played games with fierce intensity, giving themselves as sacrifice to the game, for play was the chief business of growth, finding and making themselves in the world. Now when they are too old merely to play, to what shall they give themselves with fierce intensity? They cannot play for recreation, since they have not been used up. … Since each activity is not interesting to begin with, its value does not deepen and it does not bear much repetition. … In these circumstances, the inevitable tendency is to raise the ante of the compulsive useless activity.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 42.

“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 36-37.

“A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can’t buy that because the word doesn’t exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 145.

“Can they solve the problem of the nagging unanswerable question of justification and vocation? Their principle is the traditional one of classical mysticism: by “experiences” (“kicks”) to transcend the nagged and nagging self altogether and get out of one’s skin, to where no questions are asked—nor is there any articulate speech to ask them in.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 156.

“In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears—and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good—it is not surprising if there are explosions.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 209.

“We do not need to be able to say what “human nature” is in order to be able to say that some training is “against human nature.””

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 6.

“It is hard to grow up in a society in which one’s important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 36.

“Children, if we observe them, seem normally to be abounding in simple faith. They rush headlong and there is ground underfoot. They ask for information and are told. They cry for something and get it or are refused, but they are not disregarded. They go exploring and see something interesting. It is the evil genius of our society to blight, more or less disastrously, this faith of its young as they grow up; for our society does not, for most, continue to provide enough worth-while opportunities and relevant duties, and soon it ceases to take them seriously as existing.”

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 139-140.

“Social scientists … have begun to think that “social animal” means “harmoniously belonging.””

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Paul Goodman livre Growing Up Absurd

They do not like to think that fighting and dissenting are proper social functions, nor that rebelling or initiating fundamental change is a social function. Rather, if something does not run smoothly, they say it has been improperly socialized; there has been a failure in communication. … But perhaps there has not been a failure in communication. Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable. … We must ask the question, “Is the harmonious organization to which the young are inadequately socialized perhaps against human nature, or not worthy of human nature, and therefore there is difficulty in growing up?”
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 10-11.

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