{"product_id":"freud-the-mind-of-the-moralist-9780226716398","title":"Freud: The Mind of the Moralist","description":"Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as \"An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud's cultural importance . . . a permanently valuable contribution to the human sciences.\"-Alastair MacIntyre, \u003ci\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This remarkably subtle and substantial book, with its nicely ordered sequences of skilled dissections and refined appraisals, is one of those rare products of profound analytic thought. . . . The author weighs each major article of the psychoanalytic canon in the scales of his sensitive understanding, then gives a superbly balanced judgement.\"-Henry A. Murray, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Rieff's tremendous scholarship and rich reflections fill his pages with memorable treasures.\"-Robert W. White, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Philip Rieff's book is a brilliant and beautifully reasoned example of what Freud's influence has really been: an increasing intellectual vigilance about human nature. . . . What the analyst does for the patient-present the terms for his new choices as a human being-Mr. Rieff does in respect to the cultural significance of Freudianism. His style has the same closeness, the same undertone of hypertense alertness. Again and again he makes brilliant points.\"-Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eThe Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Rieff\u003c\/b\u003e is the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings; Fellow Teachers: Of Culture and Its Second Death;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460059566354,"sku":"9780226716398","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_958895e1-b89f-4b9a-940d-e6263ca77a77.jpg?v=1730024529","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/freud-the-mind-of-the-moralist-9780226716398","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}