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jbstaniforth's review
3.0
Sometimes I feel as though, for all his failings, there's no one I agree with so much as Paul Goodman. Other times not so much. When he's wrong, he's often really, really wrong (some of the logic in "The May Pamphlet" isn't just naive and absurd-- it's farcical. Not to mention terribly written, though it's from 1945 and his essays from the 60s are faaaaar more eloquent), but when he's right, it's like he's turned on a light that makes sense of all human endeavour. Sometimes these two things can happen in the same essay (ie, "The May Pamphlet" as well as others here). It's puzzling. I strongly disagree with a bunch of his ideas and even more strongly agree with others, to the point that they seem worth building a religion around. Surely a brilliant man, surely human with all the fallibility that brings with it. Surely worth reading.