The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

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Overview

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 Narcissism Revisited."

Penetrating analysis of the '70s and the development of our narcissistic personality.

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Editorial Reviews

Frank Kermode
Ranging with much virtuosity over the whole of modern life, he finds evidence only of change and decay. . . .Professor Lasch. . .provide[s] us with a black survey of the way we live now, and leave[s] us to use all our resources of theory and skepticism to make the best we can of it. —The New York Times Books of the Century
Frank Kermode
"We cannot destroy television, prohibit contraceptives, restore the work ethic, and if we did we should hardly be better off. What Professor Lasch has done - with somber force and occasionally with gloomy wit - is to provide us with a black survey of the way we live now, and leave us to use all our resources of theory and skepticism to make the best we can of it."- Books of the Century, The New York Times, January, 1979
Frank Kermode
Ranging with much virtuosity over the whole of modern life, he finds evidence only of change and decay. . . .Professor Lasch. . .provide[s] us with a black survey of the way we live now, and leave[s] us to use all our resources of theory and skepticism to make the best we can of it. -- The New York Times Books of the Century, Reviewed January 14, 1979
Time
“Formidable intellectual grasp and the kind of moral conviction rarely found in contemporary, value-neutral history and sociology. . . . Lasch is on to something quite real.”
Michael Rogin
“Christopher Lasch has gone to the heart of our culture. The insights into personality and its social context are stunning. This is a courageous, important book.”
Bruce Mazlish
“Cultural history at its best. . . . Provokes, startles, and keeps the reader arguing with himself as well as with the writer. . . . A book of fundamental importance.”
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446974950
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 9/1/1980
  • Edition description: Warner Books ed
  • Pages: 268

Meet the Author

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was also the author of The True and Only Heaven, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, and other books.

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