Background
Rieff, Philip was born on December 15, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Gabriel and Ida (Hurwitz) Rieff.
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Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therapeutic has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. This special fortieth-anniversary edition of Philip Rieff’s masterpiece, the first volume in ISI Books’ new Background series, includes an introduction by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and essays on the text by historians Eugene McCarraher and Wilfred McClay and philosopher Stephen Gardner.
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Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently valuable contribution to the human sciences."—Alastair MacIntyre, Manchester Guardian "This remarkably subtle and substantial book, with its nicely ordered sequences of skilled dissections and refined appraisals, is one of those rare products of profound analytic thought. . . . The author weighs each major article of the psychoanalytic canon in the scales of his sensitive understanding, then gives a superbly balanced judgement."—Henry A. Murray, American Sociological Review "Rieff's tremendous scholarship and rich reflections fill his pages with memorable treasures."—Robert W. White, Scientific American "Philip Rieff's book is a brilliant and beautifully reasoned example of what Freud's influence has really been: an increasing intellectual vigilance about human nature. . . . What the analyst does for the patient—present the terms for his new choices as a human being—Mr. Rieff does in respect to the cultural significance of Freudianism. His style has the same closeness, the same undertone of hypertense alertness. Again and again he makes brilliant points."—Alfred Kazin, The Reporter
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Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therapeutic has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. "Philip Rieff has become out most learned and provocative critic of psychoanalytic thinking and of the compelling mind and character of its first proponent. Rieff's Freud: The Mind of the Moralist remains the sharpest exegesis yet to be done on the moral and intellectual implications of Freud's work. It was a critical masterpiece, worthy of the man who inspired it; and it is now followed by a work that suffers not at all in comparison. No review can do justice to the richness of The Triumph of the Therapeutic." This book is a study of Freud, his influence, and his leading disciples. It has attained classic status in certain schools of thought, which was the main reason that I chose to read it. In the background of Rieff's discussion, serving at least as a backdrop and perhaps as a foundation, is a theory of culture and personality. Culture, he says, is a system of controls and releases in tension with one another. A cultural revolution occurs when the releases, the permissive elements, overwhelm the stabilizing controls. In such circumstances, the moral commitments of the culture falter, its institutions weaken, until, normally, a new configuration of controls and releases arises. A fine example of such a revolution was the rise of Christianity in the ancient world, and another is our own time - with one significant difference: in our case, it is not clear that anything new can arise to replace the crumbling past, for the corrosive, permissive element is hostile to all authority and settled convictions. We are delivered from something to nothing. The Triumph of the Therapeutic is a major work of cultural criticism.
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Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.
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Rieff, Philip was born on December 15, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Gabriel and Ida (Hurwitz) Rieff.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1946; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1954.
Teaching fellow, University of Chicago, 1946;
instructor, University of Chicago, 1947-1952;
assistant professor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1952-1957;
fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavior Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1957-1958;
associate professor sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1958-1961;
professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1961;
University professor sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965-1967;
Benjamin Franklin Professor Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1967-1993;
professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1993;
professor psychiatry, Medical College Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1993. Chief editorial consultant Beacon Press, Boston, 1952-1958. Visiting associate professor Harvard University, 1960.
Visiting fellow Center for Study of Democratic Institutions, SantaBarbara, California, 1963-1964. Gauss lecturer Princeton University, 1975. Terry lecturer Yale University, 1976-1977.
Professor psychiatry and preventive medicine, Medical College Pennsylvania, since 1993. Visiting professorial lecturer Naval Academy, 1993.
( Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Thera...)
(Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therape...)
( Collected here for the first time, these writings demon...)
( Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original p...)
(Sociology, Social Sciences & Studies)
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Chief consultant planning department National Council Churches, 1961-1964. Fellow Royal Society Arts London. Member Library. Company Philadelphia, American Sociological Association, Science Society Study Religion (member council), Societe Europeene de Culture, Garrick Club of London.
Married Susan Sontag, 1950 (divorced 1958), 1 child, David. Married Alison Douglas Knox, December 31, 1963.