Philip Rieff earned recognition as one of the most profound
social theorists of culture and authority of the twentieth century.
Through such works as "Freud: The Mind of the Moralist" and "The
Triumph of the Therapeutic, " he proved himself an incisive
interpreter of Freud and his legacy. His work now culminates with
the long-awaited trilogy "Sacred Order/Social Order, " a
three-volume work on social theory and contemporary culture.
Arnold Eisen chose the selections for the final volume of the
trilogy in consultation with Philip Rieff. All of the selections
bear on the nature of the "Jew of culture." Rieff explicitly and
consistently identified with this ideal-type, named for the first
time in "Fellow Teachers, " and crucial in one form or another to
everything he wrote. For the rest of Rieff's long career, "Jew of
culture" would serve as foil, countertype, corrective, and
adversary to the "therapeutics" who represented both Rieff's
analysands and his antagonists. The purpose of this collection of
Rieff's writings, undertaken at his suggestion, is to trace the
evolution of the "Jew of culture" over the course of his work. In
doing so we gain particular insight into his distinctive theory of
society and the self; we also come to better understand the
theorist.
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