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

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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.
Abstract Argues that American society has become increasingly self-absorbed, focused on self-gratification to the exclusion of higher values, and that the mass narcissism of the culture is based on fear.

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HN65.L33

Publisher

New York : Norton., 1979

Physical Description

xviii, 268 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0393011771

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Subject(s)

Social History, Problems, and Reform
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.

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