Roszak's The Making Of A Counter Culture

The Making of a Counter Culture, a finalist for the national book award in 1969, made it clear that Roszak was not merely an anti-war activist. His discussion of youth culture and the gurus of the age, from Herbert Marcuse to Norman O Brown, was cogent and persuasive. The term counterculture, which became a near-universal shorthand for the world of the rebellious young, identified a shift away from social activism towards what Roszak called the politics of consciousness, and to the multiple forms of psychedelia – which he