Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was a novelist,
playwright, poet and psychotherapist, although now best known as a
social critic, anarchist philosopher, and public intellectual. Though
often thought of as a sociologist, he vehemently denied being one in a
presentation in the Experimental College at San Francisco State in 1964,
and in fact said he could not read sociology because it was too often
lifeless. The author of dozens of books including Growing Up Absurd and The Community of Scholars, Goodman was an activist on the pacifist
Left in the 1960s and a frequently cited inspiration to the student
movement of that decade. A lay therapist for a number of years, he was a
co-founder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and '50s.
The drawing is made by Nick Routsis
The drawing is made by Nick Routsis