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Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
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This obituary essay on the final book by the cultural critic Christopher Lasch appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in 1995. 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 …
Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson