Edgar Zodaig Friedenberg (1921–2000) was an American sociologist. A scholar of education and gender studies, he was best known for The Vanishing Adolescent (1959) and Coming of Age in America (1965.)
Born in New York City, Friedenberg studied chemistry at the small, local Centenary College of Louisiana and earned a master’s degree at Stanford University. During World War II, he served in the Navy and finished his doctorate in education at the University of Chicago in 1946. He became a scholar of education and gender studies.
From the 1940s into the 60s, Friedenberg taught in Brooklyn College, the University of California, Davis, and the State University of New York, Buffalo. He left the U.S. for Canada in 1970 to protest the Vietnam War and taught at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia for the rest of his life.
Friedenberg’s autobiography is Screw Your Courage (1984.)
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Topics: Value
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