My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority

My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority
ISBN-10
0813925169
ISBN-13
9780813925165
Category
Authority
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Author
Philip Rieff

Description

Rieff articulates a comprehensive, typological theory of Western culture. Using visual illustrations, he contrasts the changing modes of spiritual and social thought that have struggled for dominance throughout Western history.

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