Nationality United States Name Theodore Roszak | Role Scholar Spouse Betty Roszak | |
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Occupation Author, historian,
professor Subject History
Counterculture of the 1960s Notable works The Making of a Counter Culture Died July 5, 2011, Berkeley, California, United States Education Princeton University (1958), University of California, Los Angeles Awards James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada, Tahtivaeltaja Award Nominations National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion Books The Making of a Counter, Flicker, The Voice of the Earth, Where the Wasteland Ends, The Cult of Information | ||
Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American academic who ended his career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture.
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Background
Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and PhD in History from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University before joining Cal State Hayward. During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the newspaper Peace News. He was featured prominently in the "Alternative Lifestyles in California" episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search.
Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California on July 5, 2011.
Scholarship
Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter Culture which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s. He is generally credited with the first use of the term "counterculture".
Other books include Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, The Voice of the Earth (in which he coined the term for the budding field of Ecopsychology), Person/Planet, The Cult of Information, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science. He also co-edited (with Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner) the anthology Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth, and (with his wife Betty) the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books). His most recent novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.