World of Nations
Published on 20. March 2013
320 pages
978-0-307-83058-6 (ISBN)
Description
The world of nations is the world men have made, in contrast to the world of nature. Seeking to understand the civil society Americans have made, Christopher Lasch, author of The Agony of the American Left, reexamines the liberal and radical traditions in the United States and the limitations of both, along the way challenging a number of accepted interpretations of American history.
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Person
Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) was the author of The Culture of Narcissism, The True and Only Heaven, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, and other books. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1932 and attended Harvard (BA, 1954) and Columbia University (MA, 1955; PhD, 1961). He taught history at Williams College (1957-9), Roosevelt University (1960-1), and the State University of Iowa, where he was appointed associate professor in 1963. In 1966 he became a professor of history at Northwestern University. Winner of the Bowdoin Prize from Harvard in 1954, he held both the Erb Fellowship (1955-6) and the Gilder Fellowship (1956-7) at Columbia University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- The Limits of Liberal Reform
- I: Origins of the Asylum
- II: Two "Kindred Spirits": Sorority and Family in New England, 1839-1846
- III: Divorce and the "Decline of the Family"
- IV: The Woman Reformer's Rebuke
- V: The Mormon Utopia
- VI: The Anti-Imperialists, the Philippines, and the Inequality of Man
- VII: The Moral and Intellectual Rehabilitation of the Ruling Class
- Alternatives: to Liberalism
- VIII: Is Revolution Obsolete?
- IX: The Professional Revolutionary: Erikson's Gandhi
- X: After the New Left
- XI: Populism, Socialism, and McGovernism
- XII: The "Counter-Culture"
- The So-Called Post-Industrial Society
- XIII: "Realism" as a Critique of American Diplomacy
- XIV: Sources of the Cold War: A Historical Controversy
- XV: The Foreign Policy Élite and the War in Vietnam
- XVI: Educational Structures and Cultural Fragmentation
- XVII: The Social Thought of Jacques Ellul
- XVIII: Birth, Death, and Technology: The Limits of Cultural Laissez-Faire
- Notes and Bibliography
- A Note About the Author
