Christopher Lasch: 13 books

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1995, un anno dopo la morte del suo autore, La rivolta delle élite apparve subito come un libro fondamentale, capace di cogliere, più di qualsiasi testo di politologia, le ragioni profonde della crisi delle moderne democrazie liberali. «Anziché attenersi ai sondaggi»,...

«Come può accadere che delle persone serie continuino a credere nel progresso, malgrado le importanti confutazioni che parevano aver liquidato una volta per tutte la validità di questa idea?» Muovendo da questo interrogativo, Christopher Lasch dà avvio in questo libro – vera e propria pietra...

"Vintage Lasch.... One of the refreshments of reading him is that he states his beliefs outright."—Andrew Delbanco, New York Times Book Review Christopher Lasch has examined the role of women and the family in Western society throughout his career as a writer, thinker, and historian....

"[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review) In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote:...

«La moderna deificazione della mera sopravvivenza… è senz’altro la tappa intellettuale più strana mai proposta da un uomo a un altro uomo». Nulla più di questa frase di William James, che compare in esergo alle pagine che seguono, spiega il contenuto proprio di quest’opera di Christopher...

The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. 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...

"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book Review Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering...

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.

"Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose...

The world of nations is the world men have made, in contrast to the world of nature. Seeking to understand the civil society Americans have made, Christopher Lasch, author of The Agony of the American Left, reexamines the liberal and radical traditions in the United States and the limitations of both, along the way challenging a number of accepted interpretations of American history.

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissism Revisited."

Five long essays by an American historian, the author of The New Radicalism in America (1965). Under the rubric of "the collapse of mass-based radical movements," Lasch examines the decline of populism, the disintegration of the American socialist party, and the weaknesses of black nationalism....

Attraverso la ricostruzione storica della nascita della moderna famiglia borghese, l’autore porta alla luce le contraddizioni di una società che si era illusa di liberarsi, attraverso la negazione, dell’importanza delle relazioni familiari. La crisi della famiglia nella “società edonistica”...