“It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.”
Paul Goodman
(September 9, 1911-1972)
Sign: Virgo
Queer American writer, philosopher, and political activist whose writings like the novel The Empire City (1959), and the theoretical work Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society (1960), consider the role of capitalism and the experience of isolation in America.
He co-founded Gestalt Psychology in the 1940s and 50s, and was a major influence among New York intellectuals and authors such as Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer.
“Faggot Forefathers” is a weekly series highlighting the lives of historically significant gay men and their contributions to our world.
