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