Paul Goodman Archive


Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society


Written: 1960.
Source: Text from RevoltLib.com.
Transcription/Markup: Andy Carloff
Online Source: RevoltLib.com; 2021


  1. Preface
  2. Introduction : “Human Nature” and the Organized System
  3. Chapter 1 : Jobs
  4. Chapter 2 : Being Taken Seriously
  5. Chapter 3 : Class Structure
  6. Chapter 4 : Aptitude
  7. Chapter 5 : Patriotism
  8. Chapter 6 : Social Animal
  9. Chapter 7 : Faith
  10. Chapter 8 : An Apparently Closed Room
  11. Chapter 9 : The Early Resigned
  12. Chapter 10 : The Early Fatalistic
  13. Chapter 11 : The Missing Community
  14. Conclusion
  15. Appendices
  16. On Paul Goodman
  17. Notes