Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic 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.
Theodore Roszak

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- Name
- Theodore Roszak
- Born
- 15 November 1933
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- 5 July 2011
- Place of death
- Berkeley, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Author
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Princeton University (PhD)
- Spouse
- Betty Roszak
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- culturology
- Known for
- The Making of a Counter Culture
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel · Otherwise Award · Tähtivaeltaja Award
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Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic 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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Biography
Biography
Theodore Roszak studied at Princeton University and University of California, Los Angeles. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is culturology. Employment is recorded with Stanford University and San Francisco State University. Works named in the authority record are The Making of a Counter Culture. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel, Otherwise Award and Tähtivaeltaja Award.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Theodore Roszak • Born — 15 November 1933 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Died — 5 July 2011 • Place of death — Berkeley, California, U.S. • Occupation — * Author • historian • professor • Education — University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Princeton University (PhD) • Subject — History Counterculture of the 1960s • Notable Works — The Making of a Counter Culture • Spouse — Betty Roszak
Biography
Biography
Roszak was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 to Anton and Blanche Roszak. The name Roszak is of Polish origin. His parents were Roman Catholic; his father was a cabinet maker and his mother was a homemaker. Roszak attended Chicago public schools. Roszak completed his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1955. He then received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 1958 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Thomas Cromwell and the Henrican reformation." His academic career began by teaching at Stanford University from 1958 to 1963 before joining Cal State Hayward. During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the newspaper Peace News from 1964 to 1965. He also taught as a visiting professor at San Francisco State University in 1981 and Schumacher College in 1991. He was featured prominently in the "Alternative Lifestyles in California" episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search. His writing career began in 1966 when he started contributing to The Nation and The Atlantic. Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California, on July 5, 2011.
Fiction
Fiction
His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema titled Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books). In a 1995 interview with Publishers Weekly, Roszak said, "For me, nonfiction was a detour I took on the way to fiction," and "But writing fiction is like working without a net, and it took me a long time to write something that was good enough to be published. When opportunities to write nonfiction came along, I took them. [...] But if things had turned out the way I wanted, I would always have been a novelist." His final novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
• The Dissenting Academy (1968) • The Making of a Counter Culture (Doubleday & Company, 1969) • Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women (1969) • Where the Wasteland Ends (1972) • Sources (1972) • Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness (1975) • Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society (1979) • From Satori to Silicon Valley (1986) * * • Fool's Cycle/Full Cycle (Robert Briggs Associates, 1988) • The Voice of the Earth (1992); 2nd edition (2001), Phanes Press, • The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (1994) 2nd edition • The Gendered Atom (1999) • Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club Books (1995) • World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror (Between The Lines, 2006) • The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation. (New Society Publishers, 2009)
Essays
Essays
• "Birth of an Old Generation" • "When the Counterculture Counted • "Raging Against the Machine: In its '1984' Commercial, Apple Suggested that its Computers Would Smash Big Brother. But Technology Gave Him More Control." Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2004.
Fiction
Fiction
• Pontifex (1974) • Bugs (1981) • Dreamwatcher (1985) • Flicker (1991) • The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995) • The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003) Leapfrog. • The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried Life (2013). Posth. Published posthumously
Identity
Identity
Theodore Roszak is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel and Otherwise Award.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1933
Theodore Roszak born at Chicago.
2011
Theodore Roszak died at Berkeley.
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Awards and honors
• New York Open Center in 1999 for his "Prescient and Influential Analysis of American Culture" • Guggenheim Fellow and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. • 1995 Tiptree Award for The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein • 2009 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire for Foreign Language Novel, The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried Life
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". According to historian Todd Gitlin, "People were trying to figure out, 'What is this thing that has come upon us?' He named it". Other books include Where the Wasteland Ends, 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, and Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders. 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.
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- 1.Princeton University. Princeton Alumni Weekly.
- 2.O'Neill. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s. Charles Scribner's Sons. January 1, 2003.
- 3.Ball, Terence. Theodore Roszak. Environmental Encyclopedia. Gale. 2003.
- 4.Roszak, Theodore Matthew. Thomas Cromwell and the Henrican reformation. 1959.
- 5.Fountain, Nigel (1988). Underground: the London Alternative Press, 1966–74. Taylor & Francis. p. 12.
- 6.Gale. Theodore Roszak. Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. August 12, 2011.
- 7.Stanford University. Stanford Humanities Lab.
- 8.San Francisco Chronicle. Theodore Roszak (1933–2011). July 1, 2009.
- 9.Stanford University. Computing and Counterculture.
- 10.Martin, Douglas. Theodore Roszak, '60s Expert, Dies at 77. The New York Times. July 12, 2011.
- 11.Woo, Elaine. Theodore Roszak dies at 77; scholar coined the term 'counterculture'. Chicago Tribune. Los Angeles Times. July 14, 2011.
- 12.Homberger, Eric. Obituary: Theodore Roszak: US observer of social change, he coined the term 'counterculture'. The Guardian. July 28, 2011.
- 13.Theodore Roszak; Historian who coined 'counterculture' to describe the flower power movement and became a tireless champion of environmentalism. The Times. NI Syndication Limited. July 27, 2011.
- 14.Theodore Roszak coined counterculture label. Guelph Mercury. Associated Press. July 15, 2011.
- 15.Wade, Nicholas. Theodore Roszak: Visionary Critic of Science. Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 178. 4064. 960–962. December 1, 1972. 10.1126/science.178.4064.960.
- 16.Blumberg, Paul. Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society. Theodore Roszak. Contemporary Sociology. American Sociological Association. 2. 6. 591–595. 1973. 10.2307/2062444.
- 17.Erlich, John L. Where the Wasteland Ends Theodore Roszak. Social Work. Oxford University Press. 18. 3. 123. 1973. 23710896.
- 18.Schwarz, Walter. Books: Mind over matter in a mad world - Theodore Roszak, historian of counterculture, has identified the ultimate Green discipline, says Walter Schwarz / Eco psychology. The Guardian. March 20, 1993.
- 19.Hannon, Jamie. Reviewed Work: The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2nd Edition) by Theodore Roszak. Natural Areas Journal. Natural Areas Association. 23. 4. 373–374. October 2003. 43912269.
- 20.Johnson, Gregory. Reviewed Work: Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society by Theodore Roszak. Contemporary Sociology. 10. 2. 327–328. March 1981. 10.2307/2066984.
- 21.Reviewed Work: The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking by Theodore Roszak. The Wilson Quarterly. 10. 4. 155. Autumn 1986. 40257076.
- 22.Lovell, Bernard. Reviewed Work: THE CULT OF INFORMATION: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking by Theodore Roszak. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 135. 5372. 612–613. July 1987. 41374362.
- 23.Robins, Kevin. The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking Theodore Roszak. Sociology. 21. 3. 495–496. 1987. 10.1177/0038038587021003030.
- 24.THE GENDERED ATOM: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science. Publishers Weekly. 246. 41. October 11, 1999.
- 25.Losos, Joseph. Boomers Glide into their Golden Years Theodore Roszak Presents a Largely Rosy Vision of the Future as the Counter-Culture Generation Grows Gray. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 13, 1998.
- 26.Blakemore, Peter. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, Allen D. Kanner. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Oxford University Press. 5. 1. 138–139. Winter 1998. 10.1093/isle/5.1.138.
- 27.Van Leeuwen, Jan. Theodore Roszak's the Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein: A Countercultural Perspective on Alchemy, Gender and the Scientific Revolution. DQR Studies in Literature. 47. 1. 449–466. July 2010.
- 28.Thomas, Joan. The Thomas Review Frankenstein benefits from facelift Female characters spring to life in Roszak's modern version of Shelley classic. The Globe and Mail. June 3, 1995.
- 29.The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein. Publishers Weekly. 242. 11. March 13, 1995.
- 30.Maclay, Catherine. Theodore Roszak: the monster in the laboratory. Publishers Weekly. 242. 17. April 24, 1995.
- 31.Salvadori, T.R. The Devil and Daniel Silverman (Book). Library Journal. 128. 1. January 1, 2003.
- 32.Cebik, L. B. Reviewed Work: The Dissenting Academy by Theodore Roszak. The Georgia Review. 24. 3. 376–379. Fall 1970. 41396748.
- 33.Hymes, Dell. Responsibilities of Dissent. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 24. 9. 29–34. November 1968. 10.1080/00963402.1968.11457734.
- 34.Moore, W. G. The Dissenting Academy Theodore Roszak. The Modern Language Review. 68. 1. 134–136. 1973. 10.2307/3726213.
- 35.Graham, Ronnie. Unfinished Animal Theodore Roszak. Fortnight. 155. 17. 1977. 25546421.
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Formation and teaching. Roszak studied at Princeton University and University of California, Los Angeles. The record notes the qualification Doctor of Philosophy. Roszak received Guggenheim Fellowship, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel, Otherwise Award and Tähtivaeltaja Award.
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