Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 Edition (May 31, 2016). Language: English. Editor: David Kaiser & W. Patrick McCray

Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

 In his 1969 book The Making of a CountercultureTheodore Roszak described youth in the 1960s as fleeing from science. “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself. Roszak’s view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and In the 1970s, we can think of a movement which was explicitly anti-scientific in its acceptance of other spiritualities. and Community living.

Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era’s countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in science—of a certain type. Rejecting militarized technical projects such as Cold War missiles. and Mainframes, Boomers and Hippies desired a science that was both small and large-scale. and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary’s championing of space exploration as the ultimate “high.” Groovy Science Exploring the possibility of experimentation and Countercultural science was marked by eclecticism and Technology during one of its most vibrant periods American history.

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