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Bezig met laden... Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Laschdoor Eric Miller
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Lasch was perhaps the most important thinker practicing history in the U.S. in the second half of the 20th century. His books (The Culture of Narcissism was his most famous)drew fervid criticism from both left and right. He spent his career criticizing liberal progressivism and the shallow desire for betterment. But he was even more critical of conservatives. He thought corporate capitalism and disregard of social class to play large roles in producing the evil he saw around him in the modern world. Eventually, he came to praise tight-knit bourgeois family life, independent work, local community, and religious values as keys to the best life we can have in this world. Eric Miller has written a biography that is, generally, worthy of its subject. Lasch was a complex, difficult man. Miller has made an impressive first attempt to discern him and the importance of his work. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Christopher Lasch was a leading intellectual of the twentieth century. His work consistently probed the nation’s political and cultural terrain, considering the unruly thrust of America’s history and the possibilities of a better way. Hope in a Scattering Time is the first and only full biography of this towering intellectual figure. Miller plumbed Lasch’s published writings, his correspondence, and interviews and correspondence with his friends, students, and colleagues to create this comprehensive biography. In these pages Eric Miller captures the evolving nature of Lasch’s understanding of the world and his fight for clarity and insight in a muddled age. Christopher Lasch’s sharp, prophetic stance caused many in his time to rethink what they thought they had understood, and to consider the world anew. Fifteen years after Lasch’s death, the time is ripe to once again follow his lead and to reassess how we view and understand our world. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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