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# My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority (Sacred Order / Social Order, Vol. 1) (Volume 1)

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Brilliant Mess
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2010*

This is a strange difficult book.I can't say Rieff is a great literary stylist.He is absolutely incomprehensible at times.Still, DEATHWORKS is a powerful, brilliant and surprisingly moving book.If you have a sense that the world is no longer at ease and it isn't just you, Rieff is apt to speak directly to you .He doesn't give you a cure but he does come up with a fairly persuasive diagnosis.The world we live in has been consumed by a kind of cultural anti-matter, who's function is to delegitimize everything that has gone on before it.He believes the transvaluation has taken place and that is the world we live in now, a third world that is post monotheistic.Freedom is formlessness and power is central.The sacred is dead as a doornail.Any reversion to paganism (the first world) is pure contrivance.We are essentially living in the world of the hollow men.I was struck by how personally Rieff takes what has happened and by his willingness to say , I don't like it. I f that doesn't sound like much , consider the fact that most commentary you read on almost every topic is in some sense a paen to nothingness. Think of how many articles youv'e read explaining to you that the purpose of art , even thought itself is to be transgressive and subversive of the existing  society.Which always means , not the existing society but what Rieff calls the second world.I have grown extremely weary of reading that  kind of recycled banality  posing as thought.What is funny , maybe , scarey  is you'll read this kind of warmed over dreck  in reviews of TV shows.My point being that this has long since stopped being the province of elite culture.Everyone can now be Foucault. In that context Rieffs rather brilliant yelps of protest are salutory.Also salutory is Rieffs embrace of his own roots as a Jew.In the transition to modernity, Rieff has witnessed in his own life what has gone.What has replaced it? A handful of dust.

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    Rieff rises above mere commentary and social critique into something like prophetic utterance--lyrical and compelling--a truth-t
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2016*

A swansong of prophetic proportions--impossible to read without it becoming part of one's permanent intellectual template. In this, his final work, Rieff rises above mere commentary and social critique into something like prophetic utterance--lyrical and compelling--a truth-telling as well as a warning. Any who hunger for genuine insight will be well fed here. His expository analysis of world/culture(s) is an extremely articulate moral compass presented to a civilization embracing its decline; even so, his erudition never veers into arrogance (as with many others), nor does his undertone of lament ever point toward despair.This is an essential, indispensable read for anyone seeking to read the modern/postmodern West correctly, and a healing purgative for the children of the Twentieth Century.This work is important. It's hard to imagine anyone reading/digesting this without having their mind and life seriously reformed. 5 stars are not enough.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good value.
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019*

Worth the read.

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