| Historian Eric Miller discusses the concerns of cultural commentator Christopher Lasch (1932-1994), who is the subject of his essay "Pilgrim in an Unknown Land: Christopher Lasch's Journey." The work is included in an anthology Wilfred McClay edited, titled Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past. Lasch was the author of several books and hundreds of articles and essays; he had insatiable intellectual curiosity, states Miller, and was a radical in the true sense of the term, always honing his previously published arguments. He spent most of his career observing how American culture resists neat ideological explanations. Miller notes that Lasch was looking for a way to preserve morality without relying on religion and theology. |
Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past (Eerdmans, 2006) |
