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Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813925169
Rieff articulates a comprehensive, typological theory of Western culture. Using visual illustrations, he contrasts the changing modes of spiritual and social thought that have struggled for dominance throughout Western history.
Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0813927064
"The purpose of this collection of Rieff's writings ... is to trace the evolution of the 'Jews of culture' over the course of his work." --introd.
Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0226716392
Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently valuable contribution to the human sciences."—Alastair MacIntyre, Manchester Guardian "This remarkably subtle and substantial book, with its nicely ordered sequences of skilled dissections and refined appraisals, is one of those rare products of profound analytic thought. . . . The author weighs each major article of the psychoanalytic canon in the scales of his sensitive understanding, then gives a superbly balanced judgement."—Henry A. Murray, American Sociological Review "Rieff's tremendous scholarship and rich reflections fill his pages with memorable treasures."—Robert W. White, Scientific American "Philip Rieff's book is a brilliant and beautifully reasoned example of what Freud's influence has really been: an increasing intellectual vigilance about human nature. . . . What the analyst does for the patient—present the terms for his new choices as a human being—Mr. Rieff does in respect to the cultural significance of Freudianism. His style has the same closeness, the same undertone of hypertense alertness. Again and again he makes brilliant points."—Alfred Kazin, The Reporter
Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0813926769
"In this volume, Rieff advances his thesis that the third culture of disenchantment, which is now more widely and deeply entrenched than ever before as 'our' culture, is distinguished by its rejection of any and all visions of sacred order inherited from either first world cultures of fate or second world culture of faith." --introd.
Author : Amber Castle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857076908
When eleven-year-old Gwen ventures into the forest beyond her castle home she comes across the magical island of Avalon and her life changes forever. The lady of the lake, Nineve, asks Gwen to embark on a quest to protect the enchanted island of Avalon from the evil sorceress Morgana la Fay. Morgana has imprisoned the eight Spell Sisters of Avalon throughout the kingdom and stolen their magical powers. It's up to Gwen, her best friend Flora and a very special horse named Moonlight to find the sisters and return them to Avalon before its magic is lost forever. In this first adventure Gwen and Flora search for Sophia the Flame Sister who Morgana has imprisoned in an enchanted forest. Can the girls save her and help to restore the magic of fire to Avalon?
Author : Aaron Weinacht
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793634788
Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860’s made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. While mid-nineteenth-century Russian nihilism has generally been seen as part of a radical tradition that culminated in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the author argues that nihilism’s intellectual trajectory was in fact quite different. Analysis of such sources as Nikolai Chernyshevskii’s What is to Be Done? (1863) and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957), archival research in Rand’s papers, and broad attention to late-nineteenth century Russian intellectual history all lead the author to conclude that nihilism’s legacy is deeply implicated in one of America’s most widely-read philosophers of capitalism and libertarian freedom.
Author : Gary Goertz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742525902
This book presents a punctuated equilibrium framework for understanding the nature of policy decision-making by governments as well as a theory of the creation, functioning, and evolution of international norms and institutions.
Author : Antonius A.W. Zondervan Zondervan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487512026
The acclaimed American sociologist and cultural philosopher Philip Rieff gained great academic prestige with his thesis on the emergence of ‘Psychological Man’ in western culture and with his classic book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, published in 1959. In this work and the later The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966) he not only offered a highly original interpretation of the work of Sigmund Freud, but critically evaluated the enormous influence of psychotherapeutic thinking on Western culture. However, Rieff’s later work on the theory of culture did not garner the same attention, and his most recent writings have received very little critical engagement. In Sociology and the Sacred, Antonius A.W. Zondervan sets out to remedy this neglect, arguing that Rieff’s work is ripe for intellectual reconsideration. Zondervan begins by presenting an outline of Rieff’s entire body of work, focusing on his theory of culture, and explaining how the sacred is a key notion, pivotal to the overall understanding of Rieff’s work. The author argues that the present upsurge in religion, in many varieties throughout the world, cannot be explained by the classical secularization thesis, making Rieff's theory of sacred order in culture an essential contribution to a new social theory of religion. Including material from personal interviews with Rieff that enabled Zondervan to clarify important aspects of his work, Sociology and the Sacred is an essential contribution to the understanding of contemporary culture’s maintenance of its ties to religion.
Author : Sean Benson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930266
The last quarter century has seen a “turn to religion” in Shakespeare studies as well as competing assertions by secular critics that Shakespeare’s plays reflect profound skepticism and even dismissal of the truth claims of revealed religion. This divide, though real, obscures the fact that Shakespeare often embeds both readings within the same play. This book is the first to propose an accommodation between religious and secular readings of the plays. Benson argues that Shakespeare was neither a mere debunker of religious orthodoxies nor their unquestioning champion. Religious inquiry in his plays is capacious enough to explore religious orthodoxy and unorthodoxy, everything from radical belief and the need to tolerate religious dissent to the possibility of God’s nonexistence. Shakespeare’s willingness to explore all aspects of religious and secular life, often simultaneously, is a mark of his tremendous intellectual range. Taking the heterodox as his focus, Benson examines five figures and ideas on the margins of the post-Reformation English church: nonconforming puritans such as Malvolio as well as physical revenants—the walking dead—whom Shakespeare alludes to and features so tantalizingly in Hamlet. Benson applies what Keats called Shakespeare’s “negative capability”—his ability to treat both sides of an issue equally and without prejudice—to show that Shakespeare considers possible worlds where God is intimately involved in the lives of persons and, in the very same play, a world in which God may not even exist. Benson demonstrates both that the range of Shakespeare’s investigation of religious questions is more daring than has previously been thought, and that the distinction between the sacred and the profane, between the orthodox and the unorthodox, is one that Shakespeare continually engages.
Author : Lawrence O. Christensen,William E. Foley,Gary Kremer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826260160
Provides short biographies on notable men and women from Missouri from a variety of areas including politics, business, agriculture, entertainment, sports, social reform, science and religion.
Author : Robert Kondo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015064947057
"This anthology features the best of the best in the animation industry, spending their time after working full days at their day jobs, producing some of the freshest stories around. A who's who of animation talent, all of whom have worked on some of the top grossing movies of the last decade, bring you a variety of stories from the fantastic to the extremely personal"--V. 1. p. [4] of cover.
Author : Brian Rea
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452182247
Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he use up his accrued vacation time, that is. In this humorous and heartfelt book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea, readers take a peek at Death's journal entries as he documents his mandatory sabbatical in the world of the living. From sky diving to online dating, Death is determined to try it all! Death Wins a Goldfish is an important reminder to the overstressed, overworked, and overwhelmed that everyone—even Death—deserves a break once in a while.
Author : Trent Jamieson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459612068
Steve has a new job - Australia's Regional Death. On a good day he thinks it has a ring to it, but on a bad day (most of them) it's more of a toll. He's recently averted a Regional Apocalypse, but that's only the beginning. With barely a month to go until the world's thirteen Deaths get together to talk, erm, death, a crisis is imminent - Stirrer attacks are on the rise as their dark god draws near; someone is trying to kill him; he's developed a drinking problem. And he has a conference to organise. Steven must start managing Death before it starts managing him, or this time the apocalypse will be more than regional.
Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226716414
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.
Author : Jonathan B. Imber
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783081516
The Anthem Companion to Phillip Rieff' offers the best contemporary work on Phillip Rieff, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Rieff students and scholars alike. 'Anthem Companions to Sociology' offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the last two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological tradition, and will provide students and scholars with both an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.