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17. Jan. 1996 · Once it was the “revolt of masses” that was held to threaten social order and the civilizing traditions of Western culture. . . . Today it is the elites, however—those who control the international flow of money and information, preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher learning, manage the instruments ...
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- Christopher Lasch
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The chapter on the “Revolt of the Elites” reads like a prophecy fulfilled almost 30 years after Lasch’s death. This book is highly recommended for the day and time that we live in. Christopher Lasch offered an explanation for the elites’ antipathy toward nationalism.
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Controversy has raged around Lasch's targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem.
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1. Jan. 2001 · In Revolt of the Elites, Lasch argues that the degeneration of Western Democracy has been caused by the abandonment by the wealthy and educated elites of their responsibilities to support culture, education, the building of public facilities, and other obligations in these societies.
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9. März 2020 · The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 - Philosophy - 276 pages. In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes his most accessible critique yet of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's...
Simon Reid-Henry’s “Empire of Democracy” is elegantly written and often intelligent, yet remains a fragmentary, incomplete and at times stunningly imprecise book. The point of departure, on...
