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050			_aHN 65 .L37 1978
100			_aLasch, Christopher _eauthor
245		4	_aThe Culture of narcissism : _bAmerican life in an age of diminishing expectations / _cChristopher Lasch
250			_aFIRST EDITION
260			_aNew York : _bW W Norton & Company Inc., _cc1978
300			_axviii, 268 pages ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aThe 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.
520			_aArgues 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.
650			_aSOCIAL VALUES
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