num_pages: 317
description: "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism ." ―John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.
language: English
title: The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
titlecomplete: The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
genres: Social Science, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Popular Science, Essays, Criticism, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 226
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company