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Unraveling Christopher Lasch's Minimal Self with Elijah Emery

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The Communist Critique of Tradition and Modernity

In the early 70s, he talks in the section about nostalgia versus memory about how the communitarian critique basically does this narrow equation of like tradition as intrinsically opposed to modernity. So he seems to think that the communitarians are like, at that point, better than a lot of the alternatives, but deeply wrong. And kind of soft evangelical religion, and went off, you know, last she's opinion about religion is totally unclear to me. He seems to really miss something about the Protestant world. But he also seems to not really fully accepted is true.

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