Who is Christopher Lasch
Robert Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. He sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. Lasch strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled "the culture of narcissism".His books, including The New Radicalism in America (1965), Haven in a Heartless World (1977), The Culture of Narcissism (1979), The True and Only Heaven (1991), and The Revolt of the Elites and the Be...
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- The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
- The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
- The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
- It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
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Carlcarlwalsh20: the one indispensable writer for the modern world: christopher lasch. said it all. this one dealt with the psychic disintegration of our times--which we see everywhere:Kaibosworth: in short, i argue luke--much like christopher lasch and other telos authors--too easily analogizes a rosy assessment of 1890s populism into the 1990s, when the politics and economy of this moment has shifted drastically and dramatically.
Partisan_o: christopher lasch’s characterization of the family as a “haven in a heartless world” is just perfect.
Combatfilosof: psychoanalysis [...] survives in the academy and the great cosmopolitan cities of london, new york, and paris, because it still appeals to what the great american historian christopher lasch called "the hydra-headed narcissism of the bourgeoisie". - professor o'mahony
Keenanarmstrong: i feel christopher lasch becomes more vindicated by the day.
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