The Triumph of the Therapeutic
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 show more and Wilfred McClay and philosopher Stephen Gardner. show lessTags
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Philip Rieff (1922-2006) taught for most of his career at the University of Pennsylvania
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- Canonical title
- The Triumph of the Therapeutic
- Alternate titles
- The triumph of the therapeutic : uses of faith after Freud
- Dedication
- To the memory of my parents.
- First words
- Literature and sociology have long supplied eloquent and knowing professional mourners at the wake for Christian culture.
- Quotations
- 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
The religiously inclined therapists are themselves engaged in the absurd task of trying to teach contented people how discontented they really are. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That a sense of well-being has become the end, rather than a by-product of striving after some superior communal end, announces a fundamental change of focus in the entire cast of our culture – toward a human condition about which there will be nothing further to say in terms of the old style of despair and hope.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 128.3 — Philosophy and Psychology Epistemology (how do you know what you know?) Humankind Attributes and faculties
- LCC
- BD450 .R48 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Speculative philosophy Speculative philosophy Ontology
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- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 9
