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SOCIOLOGY AND THE SACRED: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILIP RIEFF’S THEORY OF CULTURE This page intentionally left blank Sociology and the Sacred An Introduction to Philip Rieff’s Theory of Culture Antonius A.W. Zondervan UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2005 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-8018-9 Printed on acid-free paper This book meets the requirements of ISO 9706, 1994. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Zondervan, Antonius A.W. Sociology and sacred : an introduction to Philip Rieff’s theory of culture / Antonius A.W. Zondervan. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-8018-9 1. Rieff, Philip, 1922– 2. Culture – Philosophy. I. Title. BD450.Z65 2005 128 C2004-906131-3 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). This book was published with help from a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 1 A Bird’s-Eye View on Rieff’s Life and Work 12 2 Rieff’s Reading of Freudian Metapsychology 25 3 The Emergence of Psychological Man in Western Culture 43 4 Blueprint for a Theory of Culture 67 5 The Limits of Modernity 90 6 Late Modernity as Second Culture Camp 119 7 Rieff: Prophet of a Post-secular Culture 140 Notes 167 References 195 Index 203 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments I am grateful for the subsidies I received for this book from the Nether- lands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) and for the hospitality of the Department of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania, which enabled me to work in Philadelphia to collect data needed for this book. I thank Professor Rieff and his wife for their cooperation and hos- pitality and Jonathan Imber for his information and fruitful discussions. Thanks also go to the editors at University of Toronto Press and to James McConica. I am particularly grateful to Raymond DeVries and Reinier Leushuis, who taught me that friendship is an essential part of academic work. Their encouragement, together with that of other friends, is the mortar that binds this book. This page intentionally left blank SOCIOLOGY AND THE SACRED This page intentionally left blank
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