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

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W. W. Norton & Company, May 17, 1991 - Psychology - 282 pages

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."
 

Contents

I The Awareness Movement and the Social Invasion of the Self
3
II The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time
31
From Horatio Alger to the Happy Hooker
52
Theatrics of Politics and Everyday Existence
71
V The Degradation of Sport
100
VI Schooling and the New Illiteracy
125
VII The Socialization of Reproduction and the Collapse of Authority
154
Sociopsychology of the Sex War
187
IX The Shattered Faith in the Regeneration of Life
207
X Paternalism Without Father
218
The Culture of Narcissism Revisited
237
Notes
251
Index
275
Back Cover
284
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About the author (1991)

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.

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