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A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed u

Philip Rieff earned recognition as one of the most profound social theorists of culture. Through such works as ""Freud: The Mind of the Moralist"", he

Why have we failed so badly to address the crisis of hunger in the 21st century?

Tracing the evolution of the ""Jew of culture"", this title provides an insight into author's theory of society and the self.

An extraordinarily open and moving account of Susan Sontag's final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journa

Inaugurates a trilogy that signals the summation of cultural theorist and Freud scholar Philip Rieff's lifework. Rieff takes aim at significant ""deat

Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise

A description and analysis of the clothing worn in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. Each of the cultures discussed had its own inimitable style and this book

Patricia Rieff Anawalt probes deeply into the significance and meaning of shamanic practices in Northeast Siberia, Alaska and British Columbia, and al

"A reference that has no counterpart.... Civilization is in debt to all [the contributors]."-International Herald Tribune

The terms mental health, maturity, personality integration, self-actualization have been used by psychologists to represent the realm of the ideal or