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

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When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a biblical prophet (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life.

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When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a biblical prophet (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 23 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 0393356175
ISBN 13: 9780393356175

Media Reviews

Lasch took in a remarkable range of contemporary experience, making many observations that, if anything, ring more true today. -- Lee Siegel - The New York Times
Morbidly clever, brilliantly on target, idiosyncratically compelling. -- Alan Wolfe - The New Republic

Author Bio

Christopher Lasch (1932-1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.