01742cam a2200301 a 4500001000700000003000800007005001700015008004100032010001300073020001500086035001100101040002700112043001200139082002200151100003100173245008400204250001200288260003700300300002400337504006400361505077500425650003501200650003001235650004401265650002901309651004401338651005801382550255BD-DhUL20170419190810.0941007s1995    nyu      b    00100 eng    a94037270  a0393036995  a550255  aANLbengdANLcBD-DhUL  an-us---00a306.0973220bLAS1 aLasch, Christopher,d1932-14aThe revolt of the elites :band the betrayal of democracy /cChristopher Lasch.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bW.W. Norton,cc1995.  ax, 276 p. :c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.0 a1. Introduction: The Democratic Malaise -- I. The Intensification of Social Divisions. 2. The Revolt of the Elites. 3. Opportunity in the Promised Land: Social Mobility or the Democratization of Competence? 4. Does Democracy Deserve to Survive? 5. Communitarianism or Populism? The Ethic of Compassion and the Ethic of Respect -- II. Democratic Discourse in Decline. 6. Conversation and the Civic Arts. 7. Racial Politics in New York: The Attack on Common Standards. 8. The Common Schools: Horace Mann and the Assault on Imagination. 9. The Lost Art of Argument. 10. Academic Pseudo-radicalism: The Charade of "Subversion" -- III. The Dark Night of the Soul. 11. The Abolition of Shame. 12. Philip Rieff and the Religion of Culture. 13. The Soul of Man under Secularism. 0aPolarization (Social sciences) 0aDemocracyzUnited States. 0aElite (Social sciences)zUnited States. 0aPopulismzUnited States. 0aUnited StatesxSocial conditionsy1945- 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty20th century.