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On Pfiilip Rieff

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine, define and critically evaluate Professor Philip Rieff's central thesis which may be stated in the following way. After the great theoretical works of Freud and his successor-critics, the western world has seen the emergence of a new self-understanding which is the most important symptom of a fundamentally new culture in which therapy replaces religion.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/10742
Date January 1969
CreatorsDavis, Arthur
ContributorsGreenspan, Louis, Religion
Source SetsMcMaster University
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typethesis

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