Description: 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.
Brief description:
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.