Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
"Christopher (Kit) Lasch" (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was a well-known American historian, moral philosopher/moralist, and social critic.
Mentored by William Leuchtenburg at Columbia University, Lasch was a professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled the 'culture of narcissism.' His books, including The New Radicalism in America (1965), Haven in a Heartless World (1977), The Culture of Narcissism (1979), and The True and Only Heaven (1991), were widely discussed and reviewed. The Culture of Narcissism became a surprise best-seller and won the National Book Award in the List of winners of the National Book Award#Current/category Current Interest (paperback).
[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1980.html "National Book Awards – 1980"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.
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The great power of the project is that it's absolutely irrational. And that disturbs, angers the sound human perception of a capitalist society. That is also a part of the project, this is the idea of the project, to put in doubt all the values.
A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
You need to spend time walking, ... You have cold air, sunny day, rainy day, even snow. Spend time experiencing the project.
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.
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
Now the fabric panel moves in all the directions very whimsically. [It] very sensually reflects the serpent-like character of the walkway system.
It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
We chose the Arkansas River because it is so habitable there is so much human activity. Also, there is no screen of trees to block the view of the river and there are high banks.
There will be many interruptions (in the fabric panels) for boulders, rock formations, vegetation, ... The fabric panels' width will be the same width as the water.
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival.
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Everyone is gone. They are safe. For that, we are thankful.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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