Sacred Order
In memory of Philip Rieff, who died on July 1, 2006:
- An essay from July 16 on Rieff's concept of "the sacred order"
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An example of order— sacred, since purely mathematical (as was Einstein's "holy geometry book")– linked to on the date of Rieff's death:
Related material:
and
For details, see the
five Log24 entries ending
on the morning of
Midsummer Day, 2006.
Thanks to University Diaries for pointing out the essay on Rieff.
That essay says Rieff had "a dense, knotty, ironic style designed to warn off impatient readers. You had to unpack his aphorisms carefully. And this took a while. As a result, his thinking had a time-release effect." Good for him. For a related essay (time-release effect unknown), see Hitler's Still Point: A Hate Speech for Harvard.
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