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...Christopher Lasch; Norton; 268 pages...
Like a biblical prophet, Christopher Lasch appears at the gates of our culture with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through the rest of society as people lose faith in their leaders ... As social life becomes more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class...
...debate on the academic left continued this weekend in a conference on "Sociology and History," which featured as speakers the Marxist historians Christopher Lasch '54, Eugene Genovese and the well-known sociologist Norbert Elias...
...Lasch said Friday he believes social science today--as well as social scientists--contain an implicit status quo bias...
...conference coincided with the publication of the first issue of "Marxist Perspectives," a quarterly journal of history that focuses on leftist historical interpretations. Genovese, Lasch and John Womack '59, professor of History, are all supporters of the quarterly...