Antonius A W Zondervan Zondervan

Sociology and the Sacred

An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781487520663
• ISBN-10: 1487520662
• Artikelnr.: 44796142

Autorenporträt

Antonius A.W. Zondervan is a theologian and independent scholar living in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

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