The Culture of narcissism : American life in an age of diminishing expectations / Christopher Lasch

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W W Norton & Company Inc., c1978Edition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: xviii, 268 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 393011771
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN 65 .L37 1978
Contents:
The awareness movement and the social invasion of the self -- The narcissistic personality of our time -- Changing modes of making it : from Horatio Alger to the happy hooker -- The banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness : theatrics of politics and everyday existence -- The degradation of sport -- Schooling and the new illiteracy -- The socialization of reproduction and the collapse of authority -- The flight from feeling: sociopsychology of the sex war -- The shattered faith in the regeneration of life -- Paternalism without father.
Summary: Argues that American society has become increasingly self-absorbed, focused on self-gratification to the exclusion of higher values, and that the mass narcissism of the culture is based on fear.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex Relegation Room General Education GC HN 65 .L37 1978 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000004548

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The awareness movement and the social invasion of the self -- The narcissistic personality of our time -- Changing modes of making it : from Horatio Alger to the happy hooker -- The banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness : theatrics of politics and everyday existence -- The degradation of sport -- Schooling and the new illiteracy -- The socialization of reproduction and the collapse of authority -- The flight from feeling: sociopsychology of the sex war -- The shattered faith in the regeneration of life -- Paternalism without father.

Argues that American society has become increasingly self-absorbed, focused on self-gratification to the exclusion of higher values, and that the mass narcissism of the culture is based on fear.

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