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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman •A Jew Today. Elie Wiesel • American Caesar. William Manchester •E.M. Forster: A Life. P.N. Furbank • In Search of History. Theodore H. White •The Annotated Shakespeare. A.L. Rowse •The Culture of Narcissism. Christopher Lasch...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙The Annotated Shakespeare, A.L. Rowse ∙The Culture of Narcissism. Christopher Lasch...
...Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch...
...last distinguished academic to pack so much brimstone in his scholarship was Lasch himself in Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (1977). The Culture of Narcissism shares that book's formidable intellectual grasp and the kind of moral conviction rarely found in contemporary value-neutral history and sociology. But the book also shares the early work's redundancy and disjointedness...
Attempting to fit something as huge and varied as American culture onto a narrow Freudian couch is bound to strain credulity. Appropriated for sociology, the term narcissism sometimes seems as frustratingly insubstantial as Echo, the nymph who taunted Narcissus by repeating his words. Yet undoubtedly Lasch is on to something quite real. The est-thetes, the self-accredited sex therapists, the purveyors of cosmic consciousness and Buddhamatics, the pathetic zombies of Jonestown are not figments. Narcissism may not be a constant or universal disorder, but it is hard to deny that the horizons of millions of Americans have become...