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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.
GerarddeMarigny: "The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."--Christopher Lasch
monitoringbias: Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
— Christopher Lasch, writing in 1979
deadpinata8773: This meme but I see it usually directed against thinkers with conservative tendencies like say Christopher Lasch.
sladesr: Christopher Lasch and John Updike were roommates at Harvard.
rgtrendsetter: When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
-Christopher Lasch
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PostliberalMan1: Name some socially right wing, economically left wing political theorists like Christopher Lasch. Trying to put together a rough outline of such thinkers and I wonder who comes to mind to others.
JacktheFate: felix biederman is unbelievably proud of himself for knowing christopher lasch met jimmy carter at the white house
CryptoCesar26: The poor have always had to live for the present, but now a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class as well.
-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
WifeHusbandRain: because I'm rereading Revolt of The Elites rn, *Christopher Lasch intensifies*
babushkapost: Thanks folks this is my friend and I about Christopher Lasch
NathanCJHood: Have you read or come across the ideas in The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch?
I'm currently reading it through for the first time and I'm struck by how many current talking points in the DR, at least about culture, were made by Lasch in the late 70s.
bencobley: On narcissism as a concept and Christopher Lasch's idea of the 'culture of narcissism'.
NathanCJHood: Christopher Lasch on why modern American Culture exalts black culture.
If this had been written this year I wouldn't have been surprised!
heliophilicous: In a dying culture, narcissism embodied the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment.
- Christopher Lasch
ArieSonneveld: Deze titels:
- Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (1979)
- Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture (1969)
- E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful (1973)
- Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (1964)
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edwest: In the Boston bussing controversy large numbers of black pupils from Roxbury were sent to school in white Charlestown - one singular white boy chose to go to Roxbury. (From Christopher Lasch)
deadpinata8773: AMLO reads Christopher Lasch arc
KiyongaPale14: When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.,Christopher Lasch,Family, Values, Rhetoric ,
bureaucatliu: I'm recommending everyone read Christopher Lasch's The Minimal Self. You may hate it, but you will find something really incredible about its ability to distill the public culture of the US in the late Cold War. So much of that public culture is still intact.
Art_Quotes_: "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." Christopher Lasch
WifeHusbandRain: anyways, book haul!
idk what based person in my area is reading Christopher Lasch but thank you for your book:3
AJPhillipsEsq: “The modern state is an engine of propaganda, alternately manufacturing crises and claiming to be the only instrument that can effectively deal with them. This demands the cooperation of writers, teachers, and artists”
Christopher Lasch, author of Britain’s Secret Propaganda War
basic_chanel: what movie are you going to watch on the plane? — I can’t watch movies on those tiny screens, but I will be listening to the audiobook of Christopher Lasch “The Culture of Narcissism”
superglosh: as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
-Christopher Lasch
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rgtrendsetter: The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
-Christopher Lasch
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monitoringbias: The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
— Christopher Lasch
skepoet: Six Books to Get to Know Me (No Poetry) :
The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch
The Wine Dark Sea by Robert Aickman
The Kindness of Woman by J.G. Ballard
The Marx-Engels Reader
Rising Up and Rising Down by William Vollman
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
CityJournal: "Lasch emphasizes the importance of the past and the future, and our responsibility to both in order to begin to have a meaningful life in the present," writes Darran Anderson.
Treasurerd2923: Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.,Christopher Lasch,Conservatism, Realistic ,
intothefuture45: This is an excellent essay on Christopher Lasch, and the continuing relevance of The Culture of Narcissism to our own time
TrueLasting3989: Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.,Christopher Lasch,Improvement, Old ,
mrldolan: Any suggestions for books on writing for social scientists?
I've found Christopher Lasch's Plain Style invaluable, but many other guides seem targeted to fiction or more informal nonfiction...I also have Strunk and White.
CityJournal: "Lasch emphasizes the importance of the past and the future, and our responsibility to both in order to begin to have a meaningful life in the present," writes Darran Anderson.
dooyeweerdian: Reminded me of Christopher Lasch’s distinction between Nostalgia (not false nostalgia!) and Memory
JohnFea1: "I’m conceiving of this book as a companion to my book *Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch*."
MatthewRaskob: at this point, seeing references to “the slap” is like seeing new articles or posts about Christopher Lasch. still juice in that lemon, huh.
CityJournal: "Lasch emphasizes the importance of the past and the future, and our responsibility to both in order to begin to have a meaningful life in the present," writes Darran Anderson.
CityJournal: "Lasch emphasizes the importance of the past and the future, and our responsibility to both in order to begin to have a meaningful life in the present," writes Darran Anderson.
616Biggles: narcissism [cf. Christopher Lasch, Phillip Rieff, Carl Trueman] ..it is totally corrosive. Market economies are essential. But markets need embedding in families, shared rituals and values, religion and a shared ontology/cosmology
MelissaMWear: I'll stop there. Like reading Christopher Lasch, I am reminded that much of our discourse is a re-hash, maybe using different words, but the meaning is similar whether it's the 60s (the article above is 1964) or 70s or 2023. History repeats itself, quite literally.
doordashedcigs: i need thewizardliz to read Christopher Lasch
wesyang: Christopher Lasch on the transgender social contagion
PlainArtemis: The value of mythology consisted, in part, of its "understanding for the organic aspects of life which rationalistic morality (i.e. scientific materialism, liberalism, objectivism, Marxism, etc.) frequently fails to appreciate." -Christopher Lasch quoting Reinhold Niebuhr
sustain05: “God, not culture, is the only appropriate object of unconditional reverence and wonder.” ~ Christopher Lasch
funeralorator: Christopher Lasch - "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy"
CityJournal: "Lasch emphasizes the importance of the past and the future, and our responsibility to both in order to begin to have a meaningful life in the present," writes Darran Anderson.
JackSlay405: Quickly becoming a Christopher Lasch respecter
IronManRecords: Remember folks: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
jouissancevamps: (NEW AUDIO) The Enigma of Christopher Lasch feat. Christian Lorentzen
college_kumaran: The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race
– Christopher Lasch
college_kumaran: A "plurality of ethical commitments" means that we make no demands on anyone and acknowledge no one's right to make any demands on ourselves. The suspension of judgment logically condemns us to solitude
– Christopher Lasch
bencobley: One criticism of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism: his descriptions of what a narcissist is like can be a bit psycho-babbly, c.f. "a sense of inner emptiness, boundless repressed rage, and unsatisfied oral cravings.”
pmrenfro: On the most recent episode of Chapo, the bros assert that Christopher Lasch hooped. Is this true? Never heard this before.
NicholasKM2001: “Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps because they suspected that it could not withstand exposure to more vigorous ideas.” — Christopher Lasch
jacobin: On the enduring appeal of Christopher Lasch — on both the Left and Right.
RealFakeTalia: From “The Culture of Narcissism” by Christopher Lasch
ZaffreGlucinium: Woodrow Wilson's American.
The Conservatives and Christopher Lasch were right about public education
keenanarmstrong: laughing in Christopher Lasch
FishEaters: On Christopher Lasch:
seanphelan8: I have never read Christopher Lasch, but I feel like I need to after reading this suggestive piece by Christian Lorentzen
HannahArendt00: Seer of the Selfie: Christopher Lasch’s cultural criticism anticipated our narcissistic age. | City Journal
TrueQuotation: Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. — Christopher Lasch
Ryanonastick: I followed some neoliberal accounts that have that little globe in the bio hoping that they have a delusion that can convince me but then they post shit like this… whatever Christopher lasch said about reality and delusion…
faineg: just saw someone on here quoting Christopher Lasch’s “The Culture of Narcissism” as an explanation for US misery, and yeah, that’ll totally help the kids feel less hopeless, good call man
MDSuth: "In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment."
--Christopher Lasch
Pursue meaning, truth, logic, order, love
Seek LOGOS
TrueQuotation: I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism. — Christopher Lasch
ginosuperhero: Wrong the Superman complex of the one world anti populist is narcissistic.
aimeeterese: I really like Wendell Berry and Christopher Lasch. But they were social critics of the US in the mid-late twentieth century. Lamenting the contradictions and cruelties of modernity, reminiscing about a time when bread was buttered better is an exercise in futility.
JAH5198: Description in the 1930s, of the lack of historical understanding of the masses.
Today, situation reversed.
Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites, Harper’s Magazine, 1994.
borrelli_gomez: not because it makes people grasping and self-assertive but because it makes them weak and dependent".
-- Christopher Lasch
lionel_trolling: time to dust off the manuscript to CARTER/LASCH, my four hour play about the meeting of Jimmy Carter and Christopher Lasch
ByYourLogic: I don’t care how nice he was. he went for the biggest job in the world at one of the most pivotal times in recent history and deregulated trucking then met with Christopher Lasch. the latter is pretty funny considering the purchase Lasch has with certain online sectors nowadays
skepoet: Varn Vlog: Elijah Emery on the enigma of Christopher Lasch's Late Work
DonPJenn: "It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
Christopher Lasch
CultralFaceTurn: Got a gut feeling that Christopher Lasch would’ve sucked less if he actually incorporated a Marxist critique of the family into his thought instead of trying his ersatz blend of Marxian critique of capitalism with a transhistoricizing reification of the family unit.
LouiseDistras: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
ldkkei: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
~Christopher Lasch
Art_Quotes_: "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." Christopher Lasch
Foz89107323: "The narcissist", as Christopher Lasch said, "does not acknowledge the separate existence of the self, as distinguished from the bodily ego. He drowns in his own reflection, never understanding that it is reflection."
Philosedicine: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
0xLaptopSticker: "politics is a retreat from the mess and chaos of personal drama"
-christopher lasch
h4h90: Short form -
Maraaaks: "In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest achievement
spiritual enlightenment."
Christopher Lasch
Caravaggio, Narcis
Akashh410: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
AuronMacintyre: Both Christopher Lasch and Charles Murray approached this problem from their own directions but a serious factor here is that men are fine marrying below their status and women always want men above their status so when women became doctors and lawyers this outcome was inevitable
Godgift64107811: Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
-Christopher Lasch
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Godgift64107811: The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
-Christopher Lasch
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mbalter: “…we need to recover a more vigorous form of hope, which trusts life without denying its tragic character… the other kind, better described as optimism, has fully revealed itself as a higher form of wishful thinking.”
— Christopher Lasch
IronManRecords: Remember folks: In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
post_liberal: There is nothing that he has said in his works that David Goodhart, Christopher Lasch & Michael Lind havent already said. You may disagree with this type of viewpoint, but it is hardly outrageous or offensive. Not unless you have completely lost the plot that is.
HamishMacEwan: "In an age that fancies itself as disillusioned, this is the one illusion—the illusion of mastery—that remains"
—"The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy" by Christopher Lasch
schahmehmud: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment. ~ Christopher Lasch
post_liberal: Enjoyed reading that. A bit like a cross between an updated British version of ‘Revolt of the Elites’ by Christopher Lasch & also ‘Brexitland’ by Rob Ford & Maria Sobolewska. A very good overview of where British politics/culture/society is at right now. Recommended.
OutlawsPoetic: In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
zmkc: God, not culture, is the only appropriate object of unconditional reverence & wonder. Christopher Lasch
