Fire Backstage: Philip Rieff and the Monastery of Culture

Christopher Cain Elliott

Fire Backstage: Philip Rieff and the Monastery of Culture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Country
Switzerland
Published
24 October 2013
Pages
157
ISBN
9783631644102

Fire Backstage: Philip Rieff and the Monastery of Culture

Christopher Cain Elliott

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At present, the name and writings of Philip Rieff (1922-2006) hang under a sign of neglect. This book is an attempt to identify precisely what has been lost through this lack of critical attention, arguing that Rieff’s lifework marks a singular contribution to the fields of reactionary apocalyptics and social and cultural studies. Providing a working definition for the horizon of contemporary Jewish philosophy, this book also suggests how Rieff uniquely contributes to this field of speculative inquiry with an insufficiently appreciated, but essential, theory of psycho-theology

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