Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society

by Theodore Roszak

Book Overview

"We live in a time when the very private experience of having a personal destiny to fulfill has become a subversive political force of major proportions. An this (perhaps) is the way the industrial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385000634
• ISBN13: 9780385000635
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An enduring guide to authentic self-discovery

I first read this book in 1979, toward the end of President Carter's term, a time when some of the moves toward "creative disintegration" and "deep organic remembrance" Roszak describes here were being given at least half a chance by citizens, corporations, and even the government. Then came the landslide of forgetfulness under the Reagan administration, when excess, surfeit, heedlessness and materialism were valorized as our divine right.I urge you to read this book again, or for the first time, and remember once more the deep identity of person and planet.