Communitas (book)

Communitas
Author Percival Goodman, Paul Goodman
Subject Urban planning
Published 1947 (University of Chicago Press)
Pages 141

Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life is a 1947 book on community and city planning by Percival and Paul Goodman.

Publication

Communitas was first written in the early 1940s and edited in 1946 for its publication in Chicago the next year. A revised edition was published in 1960 in New York. It rearranges the book's contents and tightens some passages, including the conclusion. Some examples were added (e.g., Chinese commune and Black Mountain College), and others updated (e.g., highway materials). Though the revised edition puts more emphasis on the role of "affluence", the book remained mostly the same.[1]

Reception

Sociologist David Riesman, who later wrote The Lonely Crowd, offers an extended, positive critique towards the Goodmans' book in The Yale Law Journal the same year as the title's publication.[1][2] The sociologist notes issues with the Goodmans' sparse treatment of history and comments on the book's intellectual forebears, in particular, dependence on scholar of cities Lewis Mumford and unfairness towards garden city movement founder Ebenezer Howard.[1]

Legacy

Communitas became known as a major work of urban planning, and some consider it Paul Goodman's masterpiece. Yet the book only received this recognition following the resurgence of interest in Paul Goodman's works late in his life. Even as Random House republished the title in 1960 alongside Goodman's landmark Growing Up Absurd,[3] the book received little published discussion in the following decades, apart from the extended Riesman piece.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Widmer 1980, p. 156.
  2. ↑ Riesman 1947.
  3. ↑ Smith 2001, p. 180.

References

  • Abrams, Charles (Nov 1947). "Communitas: Means of Livehood and Ways of Life". Commentary. 4 (5). pp. 499–500. ISSN 0010-2601 – via ProQuest.
  • Agle, Charles K. (June 1, 1947). "The Science of Community Planning (Rev. of Communitas)". New York Times. p. BR15. ISSN 0362-4331 – via ProQuest.
  • Barnard, Roger (February 1, 1973). "Goodman Observed". New Society. 23 (539). pp. 251–252. ISSN 0028-6729 – via ProQuest.
  • Comey, Arthur C. (1947). "Rev. of Communitas". Journal of the American Institute of Planners. 13 (3): 33. ISSN 0002-8991 – via ProQuest.
  • Duggar, George S. (February 1, 1948). "Review of Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life". Land Economics. 24 (1): 102–103. doi:10.2307/3159507. ISSN 0023-7639. JSTOR 3159507.
  • Guérard, Albert (May 17, 1947). "Children of Light (Rev. of Communitas)". Nation. 164 (20): 574. ISSN 0027-8378 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Hamlin, Talbot (January 1, 1948). "Percival and Paul Goodman, 'Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life' (Book Review)". Magazine of Art. 41 (1). p. 34 – via ProQuest.
  • Meeks, Carroll L. V. (1950). "Review of Communitas, Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life". The Art Bulletin. 32 (2): 167–168. doi:10.2307/3047290. ISSN 0004-3079. JSTOR 3047290.
  • Riemer, Svend (1947). "Review of Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life". American Journal of Sociology. 53 (3): 232–233. doi:10.1086/220155. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2771317.
  • Riesman, David (1947). "Some Observations on Community Plans and Utopia". The Yale Law Journal. 57 (2): 173–200. doi:10.2307/793022. ISSN 0044-0094. JSTOR 793022.
  • Smith, Ernest J. (2001). "Paul Goodman". In Hansom, Paul. Twentieth-Century American Cultural Theorists. Dictionary of Literary Biography. 246. Gale. pp. 177–189.
  • Ward, Colin (1991). Influences: Voices of Creative Dissent. Green Books. ISBN 978-1-870098-43-4.
  • Widmer, Kingsley (1980). Paul Goodman. Boston: Twayne. ISBN 0-8057-7292-8. OCLC 480504546.


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