Creative Quotations from Christopher Lasch (1932-1994)

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Christopher Lasch
(1932-1994) born on Jun 01

US cultural historian, writer. He wrote "The Culture of Narcissism," 1979 and ""The Lost Art of Political Argument."

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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.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"The Lost Art of Political Argument" (first published as "Journalism, Publicity, and the Lost Art of Political Argument," in Gannett Center Journal, New York, Spring 1990; repr. in Harper's, New York
R:	The Culture of Narcissism, ch. 8, "Feminism and the Intensification of Sexual Warfare" (1979).
A:	"The Lost Art of Political Argument" (first published as "Journalism, Publicity, and the Lost Art of Political Argument," in Gannett Center Journal, spring 1990; repr. in Harper's, New York, Sept. 19
N:	The Culture of Narcissism, Preface (1979).
K:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.