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	Christopher Lasch on the Web
		The Historian As a Social Critic: Christopher Lasch and the Uses of History, by Kevin Mattson, Ohio University.
		Christopher Lasch vs. The Elites, by Roger Kimball.
		Lasch contends that, as they isolate themselves in their networks and enclaves, they abandon the middle class, divide the nation, and betray the idea of a democracy for all America's citizens.
	www.ratzingerfanclub.com /Lasch (962 words)

	Books in Review: XXX
		Lasch plausibly speculates that many historians overlooked "women's contribution to an intermediate realm of civic culture that belongs neither to the family nor the market" because of a mind-set in which the only work that counts is work for pay.
		It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower-class women, one has to move the appearance of full-time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.
		Lasch is certainly correct, though, that the homemaker-breadwinner household was far from being "traditional." Its rise to predominance was historically unprecedented.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9702/glendon.html (2119 words)

	The Cultural Narcissist - Lasch in an age of diminishing expectations
		Lasch derided capitalism, consumerism and corporate America as much as he loathed the mass media, the government and even the welfare system (intended to deprive its clients of their moral responsibility and indoctrinate them as victims of social circumstance).
		Lasch commits the double intellectual crime of disposing of the messenger AND ignoring the message: people are consumers and there is nothing we can do about it but try to present to them as wide an array as possible of goods and services.
		Lasch never woke up to the realities of the late 20th century: mass populations concentrated in sprawling metropolitan areas, market failures in the provision of public goods, the gigantic tasks of introducing literacy and good health to vast swathes of the planet, an ever increasing demand for evermore goods and services.
	samvak.tripod.com /lasch.html (5993 words)

	Kevin Mattson \| The Historian As a Social Critic: Christopher Lasch and the Uses of History \| The History Teacher, 36.3 ...
		Lasch's future father-in-law, Henry Steele Commager, was there, someone known for writing journalism as much as history (sometimes at the expense of his historical work as his recent biographer has shown) and for activism on behalf of civil rights during the Cold War.
		Lasch pointed to their "thirst for action, the craving for involvement, the longing to commit themselves to the onward march of events." This pattern was not limited to war-time but could be seen in the muckraker Lincoln Steffens who came to admire "the big men behind the scenes" who shaped politics to their liking.
		Lasch explained that nostalgia "idealizes the past, but not in order to understand the way in which it unavoidably influences the present and the future." Social criticism informed by historical inquiry, unlike nostalgia, saw the past as capable of teaching those living within the present some very important lessons about the ways they presently lived.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/36.3/mattson.html (8526 words)

	Christopher Lasch on the Web
		The Historian As a Social Critic: Christopher Lasch and the Uses of History, by Kevin Mattson, Ohio University.
		Christopher Lasch vs. The Elites, by Roger Kimball.
		Lasch contends that, as they isolate themselves in their networks and enclaves, they abandon the middle class, divide the nation, and betray the idea of a democracy for all America's citizens.
	www.bigbrother.net /~mugwump/Lasch (949 words)

	Christopher Lasch Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Resulting narcissistic symptoms of contemporary life, according to Lasch, were vague, diffuse dissatisfactions; personal oscillations of self-esteem; avoidance of long-term close relationships in favor of temporary commitments; an inability to connect with the past, combined with a fear for the future; and an exclusive preoccupation with daily psychic survival.
		Lasch's invocation of irony and paradox served to remind readers of his intellectual coming-of-age in the 1950s, as his activist preoccupations revealed his attempt to engage the world of his maturity.
		Lasch drew heavily on a tradition that he inherited from his parents, a tradition of Midwestern progressivism, which he in many ways criticized in much of his work but which still was a powerful influence on his career.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/christopher-lasch (1351 words)

	Lasch, Christopher Criticism and Essays
		A historian and social critic, Lasch was a controversial and often misunderstood theorist of contemporary American culture.
		Lasch was born June 1, 1932, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Robert and Zora Lasch, a journalist and philosophy professor, respectively.
		Lasch received a B.A. degree in history in 1954, after which he enrolled at Columbia University for postgraduate studies, earning his master's degree in 1955 and a Ph.D. degree in 1961.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/lasch-christopher (985 words)

	Amazon.com: The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy: Books: Christopher Lasch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cultural critic Lasch, who passed away before this book was published, argues that American democracy is withering in the hands of professional and managerial elites who lack a sense of social and civic values.
		The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
		As Christopher Lasch explains: "[T]he new elites, the professional classes in particular, regard the masses with mingled scorn and apprehension." For too many of these elites, the values of "Middle America" - a/k/a "fly-over country" - are mindless patriotism, religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, and retrograde views of women.
	www.amazon.com /Revolt-Elites-Betrayal-Democracy/dp/0393313719 (1493 words)

	Christopher Lasch - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Christopher Lasch and the possibilities of chastened liberalism.
		Tradition's champion: historian Christopher Lasch has no truck with the notion of progress.
		Late Renowned Cultural Historian Christopher Lasch's 'Plain Style: A Guide to Written English' Busts Politics and Pretensions in Writing.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lasch-ch.html (345 words)

	The Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch - A Book Review by Scott London
		Christopher Lasch was one of those rare figures in American public life who was respected by people on both the left and the right, among scholars as well as ordinary folks, in intellectual circles as well as among those who have no patience for abstract ideas.
		The privileged classes, which, according to Lasch's "expansive" definition, now make up roughly a fifth of the population, are heavily invested in the notion of social mobility.
		The aim is not to hold out the promise of escape from the "laboring classes," Lasch contends, but to ground the values and institutions of democracy in the inventiveness, industry, self-reliance, and self-respect of working people.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/lasch.html (708 words)

	On Christopher Lasch Modern Age - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		That is one reason, perhaps, that it seems Lasch's popularity is now on the rise, especially among those for whom the partisan narratives of the culture wars have lost much of their credibility.
		Christopher enrolled at Harvard (where he roomed for at least two years with John Updike) in the fall of 1950 and emerged four years later with an A.B. in history and the Bowdoin Prize for his honors senior thesis.
		Lasch entered in the fall of 1954 and finished his dissertation in 1961 under the direction of William Leuchtenburg.
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	Amazon.ca: Revolt Of The Elites: Books: Christopher Lasch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lasch gives a clear and comprehensive overview of the social and political upheaval of the last 40 years that occurred under the noses of a bland and uncaring populace.
		Lasch pessimistically regrets the faltering of the foundation of a culture lost the very core of its democratic ideals: reasoned governance by an informed populace with a sense of community and ethics.
		Lasch's work, for me, was an extenstion of Robert B. Reich's point in the Work of Nations, where he predicted that "knowledge workers" would secede from nationalistic idealism to become members of a globalist higher society.
	www.amazon.ca /Revolt-Elites-Christopher-Lasch/dp/0393313719 (1954 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: The Minimal Self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lasch's analysis of the destruction of the self is also quite apropos to the ideological complex of what is broadly denoted as "postmodernism", and generalizable to the ethos of popular culture as a whole.
		Lasch's own philosophical analysis is somewhat limited, but he knows what he's fighting at an empirical level.
		Lasch's nostalgic allusions to the Judaeo-Christian tradition are suspect, but what he is nostalgic for is an older sense of self and responsibility in the face of its obliteration in the contemporary world.
	www.autodidactproject.org /my/minimal.html (359 words)

	Hoover Institution - Policy Review - The Overpraised American
		Lasch, by contrast, looked at the American and found him peering into a mirror, anxiously rating the figure staring back at him and wondering how to combat the inexplicable emptiness he felt.
		Lasch identified two central problems with the family: the abdication of parental responsibility in the arena of moral education and discipline (and a concomitant reliance on experts to fill the void such an abdication created) and the medicalization of bad behavior in children.
		Lasch argued throughout The Culture of Narcissism that “The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.” These were the very things he saw the culture beginning to devalue.
	www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/2920891.html (5535 words)

	On Christopher Lasch Modern Age - Find Articles
		Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York, 1995), 5-6.
		In addition, at least two book-length studies of Lasch are currently in preparation, one by historian Eric Miller, who wrote his dissertation on Lasch, and another by sociologist Alan Woolfolk, who is writing a volume on Lasch for ISI Books' Library of Modern Thinkers series.
		Lasch had published four books before 1970: American Liberals and the Russian Revolution (New York, 1962), The New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type (New York, 1965), The Social Thought of Jane Addams, which he edited (Indianapolis, 1965), and The Agony of the American Left (New York, 1969).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0354/is_4_47/ai_n16128476/pg_14 (996 words)

	The Gift of Christopher Lasch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lasch found then that it was "the religious roots of progressive doctrine" that were the source of "its main weakness," which he diagnosed as an anti-intellectual willingness to use education "as a means of social control" rather than a basis for enlightenment.
		Lasch did not slide into bitterness, however, since he was now ready to search for truths overlooked or decried by progressive ideologies.
		Lasch noted that progressive optimism is easily shaken when things go wrong; "the disposition properly described as hope, trust, or wonder, on the other hand-three names for the same state of heart and mind-asserts the goodness of life in the face of its limits.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9408/opinion/seaton.html (1083 words)

	Christopher Lasch and the limits of hope. - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Christopher Lasch's untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in his intellectual work followed John Winthrop's counsel, "We must entertain each other in brotherly affection.
		Lasch questioned the widespread modern and liberal American assumptions that commonly identify democracy with progress, individualism, and secularism; he wrote of hope's connections to and reliance upon memory, virtue, limits, and humility, and, finally, of hope's source in the spiritual discipline of religion.
		Lasch observed that populist forms of democratic equality, promoted most fervently at the end of the nineteenth century, had during the twentieth century been routed by a liberalism that promised progress, meritocracy, cosmopolitanism, scientism, the "therapeutic" regime, and secularism.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-3522659_ITM (422 words)

	Christopher Lasch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932, Omaha, Nebraska - February 14, 1994, Pittsford, New York) was a well-known American historian and social critic.
		Lasch's books ranged across a broad cultural field, but a common theme was dissection of the extent to which radicals had become implicated in the assumptions of progress.
		Journalist Susan Faludi claims that by the early 1990s Lasch had replaced George Gilder as the leading antifeminist intellectual, "castigating pro-choice women and calling for a constitutional ban on divorce for couples with children".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Lasch (314 words)

	Plain Style \| Lasch, Christopher. Stewart Weaver, Editor
		Plain Style is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism, The True and Only Heaven, and many other memorable works of American history and social criticism.
		Written for the benefit of the students at the University of Rochester, where Lasch taught from 1970 until his death in 1994, it quickly established itself in typescript as a local classic—a lively, witty, and historically minded alternative to the famous volume by William Strunk and E. White, The Elements of Style.
		Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) was Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/13771.html (334 words)

	Lasch, Christopher
		One of the most important intellectuals and social critics in postwar America, Christopher Lasch was also a historian and well-respected teacher who left an indelible imprint on the life of the University of Rochester.
		Much of the collection dates from the last ten years of Lasch's life, but the years between Lasch's admission as an undergraduate to Harvard in 1950 and his appointment as chair of the Rochester Department of History in 1985 are also well represented.
		Lasch alphabetized most of this correspondence according to the first initial of the last name of the correspondent, but he also indexed a considerable amount of correspondence under single subject headings, such as "C" for Columbia University, or "F" for the Ford Foundation.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=955 (2080 words)

	Christopher Lasch
		Christopher Lasch became known as one of America’s most important social critics in 1978, when he published Haven in a Heartless World.
		Modernists had long argued that the repressive family stands in the way of personal liberation, but Lasch showed that, in our time, the real threat to freedom comes from therapeutic organizations that are taking the place of the family.
		Christopher Lasch vs. the elites by Roger Kimball: a review of Christopher Lasch’s book The Revolt of the Elites, which includes extensive quotations from that book.
	www.preservenet.com /theory/Lasch.html (189 words)

	Logical Meme » Christopher Lasch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For Lasch, writing in 1979, that character structure was an unrelenting narcissism, one that threatened to undermine the rugged individualism of previous eras and, quite possibly, liberalism itself.
		Critics promptly judged Lasch’s work a jeremiad (albeit a best-selling one), an erudite but extreme lament about the state of the culture that was astute in pointing out the development of certain tendencies among Americans but far too pessimistic about the future of liberalism.
		It’s my opinion that Lasch’s book, along with Daniel Bell’s The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, were both light-years ahead of their time in describing the seemingly inexorable dynamic of late capitalism.
	featuringdave.com /logicalmeme/?p=2134 (391 words)

	Lasch, Christopher: Bibliography-in-Progress
		The original manuscript in English, titled "Christopher Lasch (symposium on modernity)," is in the Lasch Papers (Box 27, Folder 11).
		Documents #648, 654, 659, 663, 669, and 670 in the 8th edition as well as their headnotes were dropped from the 9th (1973) and 10th (1988) editions for reasons of space.
		Thus, these are the documents that Lasch at the very least helped to select and edit for the 8th edition.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=3271 (10023 words)

	SSRN-Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against the New Class by Kenneth Anderson
		The essay examines Lasch's final work, The Revolt of the Elites, against the rest of his body of writing.
		In particular, it examines Lasch's populism and stance against the increasingly transnatonal elites loosely characterized as the New Class.
		It discusses Lasch's emphasis on the family as the locus of what remained a significantly Freudian cultural discourse, and examines the ways in which Lasch saw the family as being taken apart and then reassembled according to the mores of the administrative state.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=901085 (316 words)

	Newsback - Christopher Lasch and the Cultural Narcissist
		Newsback - Christopher Lasch and the Cultural Narcissist
		A Reaction to Roger Kimball's "Christopher Lasch vs. the elites" ("New Criterion", Vol.
		The respect that this man gained in his lifetime (as a social scientist and historian of culture) makes one wonder whether he was right in criticizing the shallowness and lack of intellectual rigor of American society and of its elites.
	www.newsback.com /forums/showthread.php?t=425 (6002 words)

	· You Got Style · Presidents' Day Thoughts on Christopher Lasch's Plain Style
		Christopher Lasch, author of books like Haven in a Heartless World (1977) The Culture of Narcissism (1979), and The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (1995), addresses the fuzzy imprecision of public discourse today, going to the heart of rhetorical-political concerns George Orwell raises in his great "Politics and the English Language."
		To second Orwell's claim, I thought to share Lasch's sharp styling of the thought in one spirited paragraph from his third chapter, "Characteristics of Bad Writing" — a paragraph entitled "Abstract Language":
		Abstract Language Bad academic writing [Lasch writes] avoids concrete (literally solid or coalesced) words and phrases as assiduously as it avoids the active voice, and for the same reason: it seeks to convey an impression of scientific precision, of painfully acquired learning and scholarship, of Olympian detachment from the commonplace facts of everyday life.
	www.yougotstyle.org /archives/000094.html (552 words)

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