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Philip Rieff

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

December 15, 1922

Died

July 01, 2006

Genre

Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction

Influences

Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor ...more

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Philip Rieff was an American sociologist, cultural critic, and scholar best known for his influential analysis of modernity and the rise of psychological culture. Born in 1922 and educated at the University of Chicago, he taught at several institutions, most notably the University of Pennsylvania. His major works include Freud: The Mind of the Moralist and The Triumph of the Therapeutic , in which he argued that Western societies were shifting from moral worlds rooted in sacred authority to therapeutic cultures concerned with personal well-being. Rieff’s later writings developed his concept of the “sacred order” and explored the consequences of its decline in contemporary life. He died in 2006, leaving a body of work that continues t ...more

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	The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud 4.07 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 1966 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freud: The Mind of the Moralist by Philip Rieff, Susan Sontag 4.14 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1959 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority by Philip Rieff, James Davison Hunter (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us 3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fellow Teachers / Of Culture and Its Second Death 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crisis of the Officer Class: The Decline of the Tragic Sensibility (Sacred Order/Social Order, #2) by Philip Rieff, Alan Woolfolk (Introduction), Kenneth S. Piver (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings by Philip Rieff, Jonathan B. Imber (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses and Modernity (Sacred Order/Social Order, #3) by Philip Rieff, Arnold M. Eisen (Editor), Kenneth S. Piver (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement and Other Papers by Philip Rieff (editor), Sigmund Freud really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1963	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral choices in contemporary society it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sacred Order/Social Order (3 books)
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Arnold M. Eisen (Editor),

Kenneth S. Piver (Editor),

Gideon Lewis-Kraus (Editor)

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“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”
― Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

tags: psychology, religion

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“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”
― Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

tags: morality, psychology

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“The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is no synthesis at all, but only the latest maneuver in the war against rationality that has been conducted with rising hysteria by literary intellectuals and humanists against the laws of a culture they have reason to distrust and disobey. The Jungian theory proposes to every disaffected humanist his "personal myth," as a sanctuary against the modern world. Against the vulgar democracy of intelligence, Jungian theory proposes an aristocracy of feeling. From this proposal derives Jung's persistent influence on modern critical and aesthetic style.”
― Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

tags: culture, humanism, modern-myth, modern-psychology, relativism, religion, truth

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