Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781783081516
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1783081511
Content:
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
Note:
Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Chapter Int-11; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1 Philip Rieff: Some Reflections; Rieff the Interpreter of Texts; Rieff the Sociologist; Rieff the Jewish Prophet; Rieff the Preacher of Sacred Order; Notes; Chapter 2 Philip Rieff and the Impossible Culture; The Rieffian Sociological Project; Political faiths: Freud; Political faiths: Orwell; Political faiths: Weber and Lukacs; Religion and the impossible culture; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 Philip Rieff as Cultural Critic
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Rieff as a Fellow TeacherRieff as Social Theorist; Rieff as Cultural Critic; Notes; Chapter 4 Philip Rieff as Teacher; Notes; Chapter 5 Prophet V. Stoic: Philip Rieff's Case Against Freud; Freud and the Fantasy of Rebarbarization; Rieff's Anti-"Inoculation" Campaign against Freud; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Decline and Fall in the Work of Philip Rieff: "I Love the Old Questions" Beckett, Endgame; After Fellow Teachers; The Uses of Rieff after Freud; Sites of Authority; History/Possibility; Notes; Chapter 7 Philip Rieff as Social/Cultural Theorist; Recognition
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Interdicts, Faith and DisciplineOrdinariness; Inwardness; Notes; Chapter 8 Fellow Sons; Notes; Chapter 9 Philip Rieff and Social Theory; Introduction; Theory, Culture and Society; Rieff as a Classic?; Two Types of Theory; Methods; Conclusions: Rieff Today; References; Chapter 10 A Kindly Apocalypse: Philip Rieff and the Endgame of the Therapeutic; Bourgeois Revolutionaries; The Politicization of Everyday Life; The Therapeutic; A Revolution of Ambivalence; Liberalism and Democracy, Unleashed; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11 Disenchantment, Authenticity and Ordinary Charisma
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The No and Yes of Intellectual DissentDisenchantment: First Reading; Disenchantment: Second Reading; The Ideal of Authenticity; Ordinary Charisma; Notes; End Matter; Writings of Philip Rieff; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1990; 1991; 1993; 2004; 2006; 2007; 2008; List of Contributors; Index
Language:
English
