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Rieff in 1957University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center. Philip Rieff is remembered today—if at all—as the one-time husband of his former student Susan Sontag, and a ...
The great American sociologist Philip Rieff (1922–2006) stands as one of the 20th century’s keenest intellectuals and cultural commentators. Rieff did sociology on a grand scale—sociology as prophecy—diagnosing the ills of Western society and offering a prognosis and prescription for the future. Although he was not a Christian, his work remains a great gift—even if a complicated and ...
Despite attempts to revive a religious outlook on life, late-modern culture cuts itself off from the sacred, says Rieff. The sacred cannot be conceived of with theories that focus too one-sidedly on (the expression of) human desire. According to Rieff, the sacred reveals itself primarily in the authoritative mode.
Philip Rieff, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Introduction) 4.06. 214 ratings38 reviews. Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therapeutic has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry.
Edited and with an Introduction by Jonathan B. Imber. Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff’s sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture. Philosophy: General Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind.
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Philip Rieff was a sociologist and cultural critic, best known for his The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud. Recently, there has been a ...
