The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings

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University of Chicago Press, 1990 - 401 pages
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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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Contents

Reflections on Psychological Man in America
3
From Calvin to Freud
10
Ernest Joness Biography of Freud
15
An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
18
On the Sexual Enlightenment of Children
28
On Studies in Parapsychology
32
Further Reflections on Freud and Psychoanalysis
37
Fourteen Points on Wilson
44
T G Masaryks The Social Question
173
Aesthetic Functions in Modern Politics
175
The Culture of Unbelief
194
Intellectuals and Education
199
Max Webers Science as a Vocation
201
The Case of Dr Oppenheimer
202
Kelly Millers Radicals and Conservatives
222
Education and the Priestly Lie
232

Kairos in Freuds Thought
53
Intimations of Therapeutic Truth
61
Freud Will Fade Only from FaddistsMinds
65
Religion and Politics Judaism
67
The Chosen of History
69
The Theology of Politics
86
On Franz Rosenzweig
97
On Leon Trotsky
98
Judaism and Democratic Action
101
Adolf Harnacks History of Dogma
111
The Evangelist Strategy
123
John T McNeills A History of the Cure of Souls
130
Paul Tillichs Systematic Theology
134
Teilhard de Chardins The Phenomenon of Man
136
Eros CrossExamined
137
Political Faiths and Their Futures
143
George Orwell and the PostLiberal Imagination
145
On Religion and Power
160
A Jesuit Looks at Proudhon
163
Socialism and Sociology
167
NineteenthCentury European Positivism
171
Emile Durkheims Education and Sociology
233
From Clergyman to Don
235
The Function of the Social Sciences and Humanities in a Science Curriculum
237
The Cultural Economy of Higher Education
247
Character and Culture
265
A Preface for Parents
267
A Character Wrecked by Success
269
Wilde as a Modern Prophet
273
Michel Foucaults Madness and Civilization
290
The Life and Death of Death
292
Charles Horton Cooleys Social Organization
294
Cooleys Human Nature and the Social Order
303
Cooley and Culture
310
With Special Reference to the Psychoanalytic Case
321
By What Authority?
330
For the Last Time Psychology
351
Sentences
367
Bibliographia Rieffiana
375
Acknowledgments
387
Index
389
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Philip Rieff is the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Jonathan B. Imber, Whitehead associate professor and chair of sociology at Wellesley College, is the author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine.

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