Title: Hope in a scattering time
Subtitle: a life of Christopher Lasch
Description: This is the first biography of the best-selling author of The culture of narcissism and other modern American classics. His brand of historically and psychologically informed social criticism was uncommonly prescient and remains surprisingly relevant to our cultural dilemmas. So does his example, as Eric Miller shows in this vivid and engaging book. Lasch's uncompromising independence cast him as Socrates in an age of sophists, and the sweeping range, critical intensity, high seriousness, and rigorous honesty of his writings won him warm admirers, many fierce critics, and a circle of brilliant and devoted students. Miller's biography offers lasch's life as a ringing case for the dignity of the intellectual's calling.
Subjects: Christianity and culture, Social values, Moral conditions, Social conditions, Christian biography, Holy spirit, Christianity
Places: United States
People: Christopher Lasch
Time periods: 1980-