The Community of Scholars

This article is about the 1962 book. For the community of academics, see academia.

The Community of Scholars

First edition
Author	Paul Goodman
Subject	Higher education
Published	1962 (Random House)
Pages	175

The Community of Scholars is a 1962 book about higher education by Paul Goodman with his observations on its function and proposals for its future.

The book influenced the free university experiments of the 1960s counterculture.

The author, c. 1964

Further reading

• Clecak, Peter (March 27, 1967). "Reforming the Universities (Rev. of Compulsory Miseducation and The Community of Scholars)". Nation. 204 (13): 407–411. ISSN 0027-8378.
• Donovan, Charles F. (December 15, 1962). "The Community of Scholars". America. 107 (37): 1255–1257. ISSN 0002-7049. EBSCOhost 35464647.
• Jencks, Christopher (November 17, 1962). "Paul Goodman's Anarchism". New Republic. Vol. 147, no. 20. pp. 23–25. ISSN 0028-6583. EBSCOhost 9937434.
• Kaminsky, James (2006). "Paul Goodman, 30 Years Later: Growing Up Absurd; Compulsory Mis-education, and The Community of Scholars; and The New Reformation—A Retrospective". Teachers College Record. 108 (7): 1339–1361. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00696.x.
• Kirk, Russell (December 31, 1962). "A Small Secession?". National Review. 13 (26): 517–518. ISSN 0028-0038. EBSCOhost 16946794.
• Levy, Martin (2016). "Wooden huts, anyone? Paul Goodman's The Community of Scholars after (more than) 50 years". Self & Society. 44 (4): 339–345. doi:10.1080/03060497.2016.1248031. ISSN 0306-0497 – via Taylor & Francis.
• Pace, Robert (1964). "Rev. of The Community of Scholars". Teachers College Record. 65 (5): 396–407. ISSN 0161-4681.
• Partridge, Ernest (1967). "In Dispraise of Administrators". ETC: A Review of General Semantics. 24 (3): 355–364. ISSN 0014-164X. JSTOR 42574366.
• Poston, Lawrence S. III (1972). "The Academic Scene". AAUP Bulletin. 58 (4): 457–458. ISSN 0001-026X. JSTOR 40239871.
• "Rev. of The Community of Scholars". The New Yorker. Vol. 38, no. 46. January 5, 1963. p. 100. ISSN 0028-792X. EBSCOhost 22848212.
• Rose, Cynthia, ed. (2004). "The Community of Scholars". American Decades Primary Sources. Vol. 7. Gale. pp. 130–133. Gale CX3490201277 – via Gale Biography in Context.
• Selden, William K. (December 15, 1962). "Administration as the Villain". Saturday Review. Vol. 45. p. 61. ISSN 0036-4983.
• Sieber, Sam D. (1963). "Review of The Community of Scholars". American Journal of Sociology. 69 (2): 198. doi:10.1086/223554. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2774655.
• Spivey, Herman E. (1963). "Review of The Community of Scholars". The Journal of Higher Education. 34 (9): 522–523. doi:10.2307/1979211. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1979211.
• — (1994b). "Paul Goodman". In DeLeon, David (ed.). Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 509–516. ISBN 978-0-313-27414-5.
• Taylor, Thomas (1963). "Review of The Community of Scholars". College Composition and Communication. 14 (2): 125. doi:10.2307/355023. ISSN 0010-096X. JSTOR 355023.
• "The Ardent Anarchist". Time. Vol. 80, no. 22. November 30, 1962. pp. 98–100. ISSN 0040-781X. EBSCOhost 54210177. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022.

External links

• Full text at the Internet Archive