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Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority Volume 1

Contributor(s): Rieff, Philip (Author), Hunter, James Davison (Introduction by), Piver, Kenneth S (Editor)

ISBN: 9780813925165

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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Pub Date: March 14, 2006

Dewey: 306.69609182

LCCN: 2005024384

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 8.60" L x 5.80" W ( 1.15 lbs) 264 pages

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Description: In so doing, he seeks to show the reader what really animates, and is ultimately at stake, in the contemporary culture warsraging over such issues as euthanasia, education, medical research, sexuality, race, class, and gender.

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My Life Among the Deathworks is a hauntingly beautiful blend of poetry, ethical inquiry, and lament....Rieff ushers the reader into a world in which ideas and issues long age deemed im portant suddenly matter again.

--The New Republic

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