Christopher Lasch

Christopher Lasch was a historian and social critic who saw modern society as a cracked mirror — and made a point of pointing out every crack with a sharp eye and a sharp pen. Born in 1932 in the United States, he attended Harvard and Columbia before becoming a professor at the University of Rochester, where he traded chalk for profound critiques of individualism, consumer culture, and collective narcissism.

His most famous book, The Culture of Narcissism (1979), caused a stir by suggesting that America was sinking into a moral crisis in which everyone wanted to be a star and no one wanted to grow up. Half Marxist, half cultural conservative, Lasch was not easy to label — and perhaps he liked it that way. He died in 1994, but his ideas continue to poke at egos and refute ready-made discourses to this day.

The Culture of Narcissism

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