{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The culture of narcissism : American life in an age of diminishing expectations \/ Christopher Lasch.","author":"Lasch, C.","isbn":"0393011771","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Norton"},"datePublished":"1979","inLanguage":"English","description":"The awareness movement and the social invasion of the self -- The narcissistic personality of our time -- Changing modes of making it : from Horatio Alger to the happy hooker -- The banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness : theatrics of politics and everyday existence -- The degradation of sport -- Schooling and the new illiteracy -- The socialization of reproduction and the collapse of authority -- The flight from feeling : sociopsychology of the sex war -- The shattered faith in the regeneration of life -- Paternalism without father. \r\n \tAbstract\tArgues that American society has become increasingly self-absorbed, focused on self-gratification to the exclusion of higher values, and that the mass narcissism of the culture is based on fear.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: xviii, 268 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"}}