CULTURE OF NARCISSISM PA

by LASCH,CHRISTOPHER

• ISBN13: 9780393307382
• ISBN10: 0393307387
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1991-05-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissim Revisited."

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
the Awareness Movement and the Social Invasion of the Self	p. 3
the Narcissistic Personality of Our Time	p. 31
Changing Modes of Making It: from Horatio Alger to the Happy Hooker	p. 52
the Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and Everyday Existence	p. 71
the Degradation of Sport	p. 100
Schooling and the New Illiteracy	p. 125
the Socialization of Reproduction and the Collapse of Authority	p. 154
the Flight from Feeling: Sociopsychology of the Sex War	p. 187
the Shattered Faith in the Regeneration of Life	p. 207
Paternalism Without Father	p. 218
Afterword: the Culture of Narcissism Revisited	p. 237
Notes	p. 251
Index	p. 275
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