Christopher Lasch (1932–1994)

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1. Christopher Lasch

   Author of The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times

2. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Age of Reform

3. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History

4. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution

5. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

6. Peter L. Berger

   Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

7. Allan Bloom

   Author of The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship, Giants and Dwarfs : Essays 1960-1990

8. C. Wright Mills

   Author of The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, The Marxists

9. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

10. Daniel Bell

    Author of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, The End of Ideology

11. Erich Fromm

    Author of The Fear of Freedom, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, Marx's Concept Of Man (Continuum Impacts)

12. Neil Postman

    Author of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, The Disappearance of Childhood

13. Norman Oliver Brown

    Author of Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, Love's Body

14. David Riesman

    Author of The Lonely Crowd

15. Erving Goffman

    Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

16. Thorstein Veblen

    Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class

17. Michael Harrington

    Author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, Socialism, The Accidental Century

18. Robert N. Bellah

    Author of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

19. Theodore Roszak

    Author of The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition

20. Eugene D. Genovese

    Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation