In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

Christopher Lasch

The Culture of Narcissism

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Topic

Decadence Personal growth

Author

Christopher Lasch

Source

The Culture of Narcissism

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Historian Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, ch. 10.

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