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Sociology and the Sacred : An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442680050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sociology and the SacredDDC classification:
  • 128
LOC classification:
  • B63 .Z663 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Bird's-Eye View on Rieff's Life and Work -- 2 Rieff's Reading of Freudian Metapsychology -- 3 The Emergence of Psychological Man in Western Culture -- 4 Blueprint for a Theory of Culture -- 5 The Limits of Modernity -- 6 Late Modernity as Second Culture Camp -- 7 Rieff: Prophet of a Post-secular Culture -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Summary: Including material from personal interviews with Rieff that enabled Zondervan to clarify important aspects of his work, Sociology and the Sacredis an essential contribution to the understanding of contemporary culture's maintenance of its ties to religion.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Bird's-Eye View on Rieff's Life and Work -- 2 Rieff's Reading of Freudian Metapsychology -- 3 The Emergence of Psychological Man in Western Culture -- 4 Blueprint for a Theory of Culture -- 5 The Limits of Modernity -- 6 Late Modernity as Second Culture Camp -- 7 Rieff: Prophet of a Post-secular Culture -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Including material from personal interviews with Rieff that enabled Zondervan to clarify important aspects of his work, Sociology and the Sacredis an essential contribution to the understanding of contemporary culture's maintenance of its ties to religion.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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