Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch
ChristopherLaschwas an American historian, moralist, and social critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth1 June 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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hygiene danger remains
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
sake clinging despise
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
wings religion-and-politics right-wing
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
roots needs
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
conservative revival
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
parent rejection grace
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
peculiar bourgeoisie horror
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.
democracy indifference intolerance
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
technique masters owners
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
perception shapes embedded
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
ruins alternatives improvement
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.