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Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken

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Author: Philip RieffPublisher: Pantheon Books
ISBN-10: 0375424520Subject: Social Sciences
ISBN-13: 9780375424526Topic: --
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Publication Year: 2007Condition: Good
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Charisma has come to be understood today as a special gift or talent that celebrities--artistic performers, athletes, movie stars, or political leaders--possess, a quality that makes their lives exemplary and transforms them into objects of universal appeal or attraction. In CHARISMA, Philip Rieff explores the emergence and evolution of this mysterious and compelling concept within Judeo-Christian culture. Its first expression was in the idea of the covenant between God and the Israelites: Charisma--religious grace and authority--was transferred through divine inspiration to the Old Testament prophets; it was embodied by Jesus of Nazareth, the first true charismatic hero. Rieff shows how St. Paul transformed charisma into a form of social organization, how it was reworked by Martin Luther and by nineteenth-century Protestant theologians, and, finally, how Max Weber redefined charisma as a secular political concept. By emptying charisma of its religious meaning, Weber opened the door to the modern perception of it as little more than a form of celebrity, stripped of moral considerations. Rieff rejects Weber’s definition, insisting that Weber misunderstood the relation between charisma and faith. He argues that without morality, the gift of grace becomes indistinguishable from the gift of evil, and it devolves into a license to destroy and kill in the name of faith or ideology. Offering brilliant interpretations of Kierkegaard, Weber, Kafka, Nietzsche, and Freud, Rieff shows how certain thinkers attacked the very possibility of faith and genuine charisma and helped prepare the way for the emergence of a therapeutic culture in which it is impossible to recognize that which is sacred. Rieff’s analysis of charisma is an analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.


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Philip Rieff

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Binding: Hardcover
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ISBN: 0375424520
Publication Date: 2007-02-20
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages: 288
Height: 1.2000 inches
Width: 6.3000 inches
Weight: 1.2000 pounds

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