Theodore Roszak (scholar)
Theodore Roszak | |
|---|---|
 Roszak, late 1960s | |
| Born | November 15, 1933 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Died | July 5, 2011 (aged 77) Berkeley, California, United States |
| Occupation | Author, historian, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | History Counterculture of the 1960s |
| Notable works | The Making of a Counter Culture |
| Spouse | Betty Roszak |
Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American academic who ended his career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay.[1] He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture.
Background
Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and PhD in History from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University before joining Cal State Hayward.[2] During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the newspaper Peace News.[3] He was featured prominently in the "Alternative Lifestyles in California" episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search.
Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California on July 5, 2011.[4]
Scholarship
Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter Culture[5] which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s. He is generally credited with the first use of the term "counterculture".[6]
Other books include Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, The Voice of the Earth (in which he coined the term for the budding field of Ecopsychology), Person/Planet, The Cult of Information, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science. He also co-edited (with Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner) the anthology Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth, and (with his wife Betty) the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) 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 the National Book Award.[2]
- Tiptree Award for The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Scholarship
Non-fiction
- The Dissenting Academy (1968)
- The Making of a Counter Culture (1969)
- 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)
- 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); 2nd edition (2001), Phanes Press, ISBN 978-1890482800
- The Gendered Atom (1999)
- Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club Books (1995) ISBN 0-87156-406-8
- World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror (2006, ISBN 1-897071-02-7)
- The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation. (2009) New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-661-2
Essays
- "Birth of an Old Generation"
- "When the Counterculture Counted
- "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)
- Bugs (1981)
- Dreamwatcher (1985)
- Flicker (1991)
- The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995)
- The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003)
References
- ^ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". Princeton University. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b "Stanford Humanities Lab". Stanford University. Archived from the original on September 4, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Fountain, Nigel (1988). Underground: the London Alternative Press, 1966–74. Taylor & Francis. p. 12. ISBN 0-415-00728-3
- ^ "Theodore Roszak (1933–2011)". San Francisco Chronicle. July 1, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ^ "Computing and Counterculture". Stanford University. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Martin, Douglas (July 12, 2011). "Theodore Roszak, '60s Expert, Dies at 77". The New York Times.
Sources
External links
- ""Social critic and professor Theodore Roszak wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1968" – PBS
- "Flashing back to Woodstock" – CNN
- Interview on Forum (KQED)
- Interview
- Maclean's Interview: Theodore Roszak: The Making of an Elder Culture by Anne Kingston. August 20, 2009
- 1933 births
- 2011 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American academics
- American male novelists
- American pacifists
- American sociologists
- California State University, East Bay faculty
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Princeton University alumni, 1950–59
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Writers from Berkeley, California