Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 01. Juni 1932 |
Geburtsort | Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Robert Christopher Lasch (1. Juni 1932 - 14. Februar 1994) war ein amerikanischer Historiker, Moralist und Sozialkritiker, der als Geschichtsprofessor an der Universität von Rochester tätig war. Er versuchte, mit Hilfe der Geschichte aufzuzeigen, wie weit verbreitet seiner Meinung nach die großen öffentlichen und privaten Institutionen die Kompetenz und Unabhängigkeit von Familien und Gemeinschaften untergraben. Lasch bemühte sich um eine historisch fundierte Sozialkritik, die den Amerikanern beibringen sollte, wie sie mit dem zügellosen Konsumverhalten, der Proletarisierung und dem, was er berühmt als "Kultur des Narzissmus" bezeichnete, umgehen sollten. |
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
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.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
