Books by Philip Rieff
The Triumph of the Therapeutic
by Philip Rieff
The therapeutic triumphs when the old ways of - call it a faith-based moral order fall away. People have become more private, they manage their own lives to minimize unpleasantness, ideas of sin are replaced by ideas of deficient self-esteem, and so on.
Interviews where books by Philip Rieff were recommended
The best books on Cowardice, recommended by Chris Walsh
The acting director of the Writing Program at Boston University argues that cowardice can still be part of our ethical vocabulary, but that we must learn from history’s mistaken identification of the traumatised as cowards.
