My life among the deathworks
Subtitle: illustrations of the aesthetics of authority
By: Philip Rieff ; introduction by James Davison Hunter.
Contributors: Piver, Kenneth S., 1965-
Series: Sacred order/social order ;; v. 1
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence.; Culture.; Civilization, Modern.; Postmodernism -- Social aspects.; Authority.; Religion and sociology.; Social ethics.; Moral conditions.
Description: With My life among the deathworks: Illustrations of the aesthetics of authority, the renowned cultural theorist and Freud scholar Philip Rieff inaugurates a trilogy that signals the summation of his scholarly lifework. With this series, Sacred Order/ Social order, Rieff both continues and supersedes the lines of thought that characterize the earlier, influential works upon which his reputation was forged.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kenneth S. Piver, general editor.
Table of contents: title: The present world fight; title: Theory of culture and origins of the kulturkampf; title: Deathworks and third world creative destructions; title: Birth year of the third culture and Freud's repression of revelation; title: Sacred messengers and the new man.