{"product_id":"sacred-order-social-order-my-life-among-the-deathworks-illustrations-of-the-aesthetics-of-authority-volume-1-hardcover","title":"Sacred Order\/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority Volume 1 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Rieff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames Davison Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eKenneth S. Piver\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eMy Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority, \u003c\/i\u003e the renowned cultural theorist and Freud scholar Philip Rieff inaugurates a trilogy that signals the summation of his scholarly lifework. With this series, \u003ci\u003eSacred Order\/Social Order, \u003c\/i\u003e to be published in consecutive volumes, Rieff both continues and supersedes the lines of thought that characterize the earlier, influential works upon which his reputation was forged. Readers familiar with Rieff's distinctive oeuvre will recognize central themes and find final recitations on the cultural impact of Freud and his creation \"psychological man\" or \"the therapeutic,\" which Rieff here renames the \"new man.\" Whether conversant with Rieff's work or new to its unique interpretive power, readers of \u003ci\u003eSacred Order\/Social Order\u003c\/i\u003e will discover a series of provocative insights, illuminated by Rieff's wide-ranging expositions, theoretical advances, and stylistic innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this first volume, Rieff articulates a comprehensive, typological theory of Western culture. Using visual illustrations and unique juxtapositions, he displays remarkable erudition in drawing from such disciplines as sociology, history, literature, poetry, music, plastic arts, and film; he contrasts the changing modes of spiritual and social thought that have struggled for dominance throughout Western history. Our modern culture--to Rieff's mind only the \"third\" type in western history--is the object of his deepest scrutiny, described here as morally ruinous, death-affirming rather than life-affirming, and representing an unprecedented attempt to create a culture completely devoid of any concept of the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Rieff, culture represents the \"form of fighting before the firing begins\" in a literal life-and-death struggle for a particular type of world-creation. Having concluded in this final phase of his career that there is no neutral ground in this struggle, Rieff takes aim at many of the most significant \"deathworks\" in modern literature, art, and history--from Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Duchamp's Etant donnés to Hitler's death camps--in an attempt to undo them by using them against themselves. In so doing, he seeks to show the reader what really animates, and is ultimately at stake, in the contemporary \"culture wars\" raging over such issues as euthanasia, education, medical research, sexuality, race, class, and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Rieff, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is author of the classic works \u003ci\u003eFreud: Mind of the Moralist, The Triumph of the Therapeutic, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFellow Teachers, \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud.\u003c\/i\u003e Kenneth S. Piver is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Diego, California. James Davison Hunter is La Brosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor in Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44278716956774,"sku":"9780813925165","price":136.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WGYzREFOVDQ0TXMwVkxLVWZSb3NxUT09.webp?v=1766489080","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/sacred-order-social-order-my-life-among-the-deathworks-illustrations-of-the-aesthetics-of-authority-volume-1-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}