Christopher Lasch

The True and Only Heaven

Analysis of American progressivism and conservatism's contradictions and failures

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Christopher Lasch

American historian and social critic whose The Culture of Narcissism diagnosed the psychological effects of consumer capitalism as a retreat from social commitment into therapeutic self-absorption. The True and Only Heaven attacked liberalism's faith in progress. He is the most important American conservative social critic of the late 20th century.

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