Famous quotes containing the word lasch:
“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.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“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.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)