The Good Society; A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice

TitleThe Good Society; A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice
Year for Search1979
AuthorsFriedmann, John(b. 1926)
Date Published1979
PublisherMIT Press
Place PublishedCambridge, MA
KeywordsAustrian author, Canadian author, Male author, US author
Annotation

Eutopia. Between fiction and non-fiction. See also 1976 Friedmann and 1979 Friedmann, Communalist Society.

Author Note

The author (b. 1926) was born in Austria, spent most of his career at UCLA, and is currently on the faculty of the University of British Columbia.

Full Text

1979 Friedmann, John. The Good Society: A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PSt

An odd book that presents the good society, which is based on community, presented through aphorisms, poems, quotations, and explanatory text. See also 1976 Friedmann, The Good Society: A Primer of Its Social Practice and 1979 Friedmann, Communalist Society. The author was born in Austria, spent most of his career at UCLA, and is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia.