Nárcisz avagy az űr stratégiája
Narcissus or the Logic of Emptiness

Summary/Abstract: This article is an excerpt from Gilles Lipovetsky’s 1983 book The Age of Emptiness. Essays are about contemporary individualism. After a short presentation of Christopher Lasch’s work, The Culture of Narcissism, the author makes a concise survey of the passage of occidental man from homo politicus to homo psychologicus. The socio-psychological diagnosis argues that at the age of late-consumer society presentism and individualism are key features of occidental culture, but their existence is due to a fundamental despondency. After the war of Vietnam, Watergate and after the events of international terrorism, the future could be hardly viewed in an optimistic manner. Our personal problems are cast in a process of self-protection.

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