Hope In A Scattering Time
''Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch'' is a biography about the American historian and social critic Christopher Lasch. It was written by the American Eric Miller and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in 2010. ''Bookforum'' called it a "supple and observant intellectual biography" that "suffers in spots from omissions and misplaced points of emphasis". References External links Eerdmans
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Christopher Lasch
Robert Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. He sought to use history to demonstrate what he saw as 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 Betrayal of Democracy'' (published posthumously in 1995) were widely discussed and reviewed. ''The Culture of Narcissism'' became a surprise best-seller and won the National Book Award in the category ...
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