- Theodore Roszak (scholar)
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notableworks = "The Making of a Counter Culture "
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spouse =Betty RoszakTheodore Roszak is professor emeritus of history at
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publisher=Princeton University ] He is best known for his1968 text, "The Making of a Counter Culture ."Background
Roszak received his B.A. from
UCLA and Ph.D. in History fromPrinceton University . He taught atStanford University , theUniversity of British Columbia , andSan Francisco State University before joining CalState East Bay (formerly CalState Hayward).cite web
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Roszak "first came to public prominence in 1968, with the publication of his "
The Making of a Counter Culture "cite web
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publisher=Stanford University ] which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North Americancounterculture of the 1960s .Other books include include "Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders", "The Voice of the Earth" (Touchstone Books), "The Cult of Information", "The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science", "The Voice of the Earth", and "Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth." With his wife Betty, he is co-editor of the anthology "Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women".
His fiction includes "Flicker" (Simon and Schuster and Bantam Books) and the award-winning "Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein" (Random House and Bantam Books). His most recent novel, published in 2003, is "The Devil and Daniel Silverman".
Awards and honors
*"New York Open Center" in 1999 for his "Prescient and Influential Analysis of American Culture"
* Guggenheim Fellow and was twice nominated for theNational Book Award .cholarship
Non-fiction
*"The Dissenting Academy" (1968)
*"The Making of a Counter Culture " (1968)
*"Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women" (1969)
*"Where the Wasteland Ends" (1972)
*"Sources" (1972)
*"Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness" (1975)
*"Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society" (1979)
*" [http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/docs/satori/index.html From Satori to Silicon Valley'] ' (1986)
*"The Cult of Information" (1986)
*"Fool's Cycle/Full Cycle" (1988). ISBN 0-931191-07-6.
*"The Voice of the Earth" (1992)
*"The Gendered Atom"
*Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. "Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind." (1995, ISBN 0-87156-406-8)
*"World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror" (2006, ISBN 1-897071-02-7)Essays
* " [http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0699/ijse/roszak.htm Birth of an Old Generation] "
* " [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/12/23/RV150757.DTL&type=printable When the Counterculture Counted]
*" [http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/28/opinion/oe-roszak28 Raging Against the Machine: In its '1984' Commercial, Apple Suggested that its Computers Would Smash Big Brother. But Technology Gave Him More Control.] " "Los Angeles Times ", January 28, 2004.Fiction
*"Pontifex" (1974)
*"Dreamwatcher"
*"Bugs" (1981)
*"Flicker" (1991)
*"The Devil and Daniel Silverman" (2003)
*"The Memoirs of Elizabeth FrankensteinReferences
External links
*" [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/back_03.html Social critic and professor Theodore Roszak wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1968] " -
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* " [http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/08/13/twih.woodstock/index.html Flashing back to Woodstock] " -CNN
* [http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R602231000 Interview] -KQED-FM
* [http://www.williamjames.com/transcripts/roszak.htm Interview]
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