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

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ISBN-10:: 0393307387
ISBN-13:: 9780393307382
Pub. Date:: 05/28/1991
Publisher:: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

ISBN-10:: 0393307387
ISBN-13:: 9780393307382
Pub. Date:: 05/28/1991
Publisher:: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

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

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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."

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ISBN-13:	9780393307382
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/28/1991
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)

About the Author

Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) was a historian, moralist, and social critic. His published works include The True and Only Heaven, The Minimal Self, Haven in a Heartless World, and The World of Nations.

Barry Press, an active professional actor, director, and teacher for over thirty-five years, has performed Off-Broadway and at numerous regional theaters. The winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award, Barry has been an active voice talent for books in a variety of genres.

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Cultural history at its best. . . . Provokes, startles, and keeps the reader arguing with himself as well as with the writer. . . . A book of fundamental importance.

Bruce Mazlish

Christopher Lasch has gone to the heart of our culture. The insights into personality and its social context are stunning. This is a courageous, important book.

Michael Rogin

Formidable intellectual grasp and the kind of moral conviction rarely found in contemporary, value-neutral history and sociology. . . . Lasch is on to something quite real.

Time

This is the big intellectual book of the season, the one for everyone to feel guilty about not reading.

Henry Allen - Washington Post

Brilliantly on target [and] idiosyncratically compelling.

Alan Wolfe - New Republic

Never has the case against narcissism been made with such an all-embracing sweep. . . . [Lasch] has brilliantly performed the first job of a social critic by prompting us to look at our reflection—shorn of vanity.

Valerie Lloyd - Newsweek

Lasch took in a remarkable range of contemporary experience, making many observations that, if anything, ring more true today. . . . [Readers] may want to seek solace in Lasch’s illuminations.

Lee Siegel - The New York Times

Ranging with much virtuosity over the whole of modern life, he finds evidence only of change and decay. . . .Professor Lasch. . .provide[s] us with a black survey of the way we live now, and leave[s] us to use all our resources of theory and skepticism to make the best we can of it. —The New York Times Books of the Century

Frank Kermode

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