The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (edition 1987)

by Philip 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.… (more)

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Literature and sociology have long supplied eloquent and knowing professional mourners at the wake for Christian culture.

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Theory is God's gift to both the timid and the daring. Moreover, it is often hard to say who is timid, who is daring. A theory can be used to kill facts or create them. A theoretician is the artificer of reality.

Faith is better than knowledge if it works; but knowledge is better if faith be only an escape from knowledge.

The question is no longer as Dostoevski put it: “Can civilized men believe?” Rather: Can unbelieving men be civilized?

Modern men are like Rilke's panther, forever looking out from one cage into another.

No German ever escapes Hegel; a German Marxist is suspect of saying Marx when he means Hegel

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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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