GOODMAN, Paul

CitationContextSource IDCitation “It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft that man becomes something.” ~Paul Goodman, American author & social critic The Community of Scholars (1962) New York, NY: Random House, p. 175 Context Extended excerpt [Nonfiction]: “The principle of the studium generale is that civilization has been a continual gift of the creator spirit; it consists of inventions, discoveries, insights, art works, highly theorized institutions, and methods of workmanship. All of this has vastly accumulated over the ages and become very unwieldy, yet, in the spirit, it is always appropriable. As Socrates would have said, it’s meaning can be recalled. The advantage of recalling it