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Review of PERSON/PLANET: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society

Reviews the book, Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society by Theodore Roszak (1979). Theodore Roszak has established himself as one of the most informed, one of the most civil, and one of the most rational of the proponents of a counter-culture, a radical opposition to what...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1980-07, Vol.50 (3), p.551-554
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