The culture of narcissism :American life in a age of diminishing expectations /Christopher Lasch.

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

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. 447 pages ;18 cm

Book Details

Author

Lasch, Christopher

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

1979

Publication Subjects

Social values. Moral conditions.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01026043 Social conditions.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01919811 Social values.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01123424

Call No.

HN65 .L37 1979

ISBN

0446321044, 9780446321044

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier Media type: unmediatednrdamedia